the most disturbing thing about this film be not that it a load of hogwash ( the cpusa be never really as much an espionage threat a the movie make out ) . the troubling aspect be the way that it whitewash the wholly unsavory tactic of the fbi and the unamerican activity committee . secret informant and gossip turn into accusation and warrantless search these be the kind of thing secret police thug like the kgb do and and presumably and what the good patriotic american be fight . yet the fbi do them and do not bat an eye . that the only realistic part of this movie and and they present it with no sense of shame at all . add to this undermine the constitution itself by have only communists invoke the bill of right . the film also make thinly veiled accusation that the black civil right movement be communist inspired and another pack of lie . it extremely difficult in this day to excuse such outrageous propaganda and even understand the paranoia of the time and when one realize how damaging it be to real people then .