Big jim mclain official trailer wayne and arness go to hawaii to investigate the inner workings of a terrorist group headquartered there. Hd big jim mclain 1952 streaming vf vostfr film entier. Big jim mclain 1952 official trailer john wayne, nancy olson. As always you can subscribe to the show on itunes or follow the links to social media in the podcast show notes. House unamerican activities committee investigators jim mclain and mal baxter come to hawaii to track communist party activities. This movie was released in 1952 during the korean war and only a few years after the fall of china to the reds and the establishment of the warsaw. John wayne is a special agent tracking down a communist spy ring headquartered in hawaii.
In the postwar hawaii, house unamerican activities committee investigators jim mclain and mal. Big jim mclain is a 1952 political thriller film starring john wayne and james arness as huac investigators hunting down communists in the postwar hawaii organized labor scene. Large database of subtitles for movies, tv series and anime at opensubtitles. The dukes cold war legacy john wayne and big jim mclain 1952. Welcome to todays show, big jim mclain 1952, my name is john. James edward grant, richard english, eric taylor, james atlee phillips uncredited, william wheeler story. There are plenty of other onlocation scenes in big jim mclain in various area of oahu, as well. This is another very good john wayne movie with great players.
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John wayne, nancy olson, james arness, alan napier, veda ann borg, hans conried. Big jim mclain 1952 where to watch it streaming online. While there, mclain charms the doctors secretary, nancy vallon nancy olson, and asks her. Read the full synopsis of big jim mclain, 1952, directed by edward ludwig, with john wayne, nancy olson, james arness, at turner classic movies. Only since the release of some of the ussr archives can we see how real the threat was although rarely as simplistic as the film shows it. Download big jim mclain 1952 fs r1 retail dvd covers. Big jim mclain is an investigator for the house committee on unamerican activities whos sent hunting for a communist group in hawaii. This was the first film in which wayne played a contemporary law enforcement officer, instead of an old west lawman. Italian movie poster image for big jim mclain 1952. The duke and his partner jim arness waynes reallife protege head to hawaii to investigate a subversive prored organization. In this cold war film, big jim mclain john wayne and his partner mal baxter james arness head to hawaii to investigate a subversive. For a movie so obviously filled with swaggering machismo, the overall results of big jim mclain are fairly tame, with just a scene or two of fisticuffs outnumbered by the romantic clinches between the duke and nancy olson who moves quickly.
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