The Red Trap (sound)

Description: Short film about a father who struggles to get through to his son before the FBI convicts him for his involvement with communist groups.

Can notes: "The Red Trap / 30 min. / Concordia Films Lutheran Television Productions (Missouri Synod) St. Louis, Missouri / Received highest award in its category at Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation / Return immediately after using to Wm. T. Howe 902 Agnes Ave. Morton, Pa. / ki42264 ki37645"

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Subjects: 1950s; Communism; Politics and government; Patriotism

Tags: anti-communism; Soviet agents; FBI agents; secretaries; lawyers; college students; offices; priests; youth; red scare; detectives; Chicago; dolly shot; Masters of Deceit by J. Edgar Hoover

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Concordia Films Lutheran Television Productions, Concordia Films, Lutheran Television Productions

Credits: "Concordia Films presents"
Written by: Frank Riley
Directed by: William F. Claxton
"A Presentation of Lutheran Television Productions"
Executive Secretary: Melvin F. Schlake
Religious Director: Herman W. Gockel, DD
Produced by Sam Hersh
Director of Photography: Walter Strenge, ASC
Editor: Robert Fritch, ACE
Music Editor: George Emick
Assistant Director: Lou Perlof
Art Director: Edward Shiells
Set Decorator: Harry Reif

Cast:
Paul Brandt: Wright King;
Carl Brandt: John Banner
Jeanne Dawson: Eve Brent
Roger Hensley: Warren Douglas
Sandra Thompson: Patti Kane
Ron Bixler: Don Gordon
Pastor Bob Meyers: Charles Gray


Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Delaware County Committee on Patriotism

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1959

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: fiction, television program, religious

Language:

Rights: "Copyright MCMLIX by The Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod All Rights Reserved"

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code: triangle triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1013