26 Replies to “Walk East on Beacon (1952)”

  4. FBI agent James Belden (George Murphy) is tasked with finding and bringing down a communist spy ring operating in Boston. After an anonymous tip, Belden and his agents tail a man who leads them to various suspects, as they try to determine how far the espionage reaches.

    Meanwhile, the spies force a scientist (Finlay Currie) to divulge secret information by holding his son hostage.

    As the investigation continues, it seems the Russian agent Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) might be behind it all…..Or NOT!

  12. 50s American anti-soviet propaganda at it's best…which is pretty poor. For example since when do Russians speak English with a German accent..lmao..

  17. A nice little police procedural. At least back then, though, the lives of FBI and other agents seem to have been much less adventurous and romantic than the James Bond and other pertinent films keep suggesting to the envious (male) audiences.
    To those imperturbable commie friends here and elsewhere: Fifteen years prior to this film, in 1937, the Moscow show trials had taken place, which turned out to be the blueprint for the National Socialists in the Third Reich and their so-called People's Court. In 1951, in East-Berlin and elsewhere in the alleged German Democratic Republic, Russian tanks had squashed the workers' rebellion against the new higher job norms and their demands for free democratic elections. In 1954, Communist North Korean tried to expand their ideology into South Korea. In 1956, in Budapest and elsewhere in Hungary, the revolt against the Communist oppression was crunched by Soviet tanks, and the same happened in 1968 in Prague. At the same time, in that ominous year of 1968, though, West European "intellectuals" and their instigated and manipulated students publicly praised and celebrated Marx, Engels and Lenin, together with their genocidal heroes Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. In the early 1980s, Poland escaped the fate of "GDR", Czekoslovakia and Hungary only by a narrow margin. And in 1989, the courageous people of Leipzig and East-Berlin were only spared because Mikhail Gorbatchev did not let himself be deceived and incited by East-Berlin Communist dictator Erich Honecker who falsely told him over the phone that the "counter revolution" was demolishing the Soviet WWII memorial in Berlin.
    Never ever in the history of mankind has there been a system that was both democratic and communist. Once they inevitably fail, they blame the US, capitalism, or the West in general.

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