Big Jim McLain(Movie, 1952)

Name: Big Jim McLain
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1952
Duration: T01:30:00
Rating: 2.6

1h 30min | Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Big Jim McLain is a 1952 American film noir political thriller film starring John Wayne and James Arness as HUAC investigators hunting down communists in the postwar Hawaii organized-labor scene. Edward Ludwig directed. This was the first film in which Wayne played a contemporary law enforcement officer, instead of an Old West lawman. Near the end of his career, in the mid-1970s, he took on two more such roles, (Brannigan and McQ), each time playing an urban cop. ()

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About Big Jim McLain

House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

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Trailer for Big Jim McLain + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Big Jim McLain - Trailer(Trailer, 2:47)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Hawaii

Made by: Warner Bros. Pictures, Wayne-Fellows Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 7 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 08/30/1952

Cast: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier, Veda Ann Borg, Hans Conried, John Hubbard, Harry Morgan

Director: Edward Ludwig

Producer: John Wayne

Screenwriter: James Edward Grant

Film Editor: Jack Murray

Director of Photography: Archie Stout

Composer: Paul Dunlap

Keywords: hawaii, politics

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Big Jim McLain(Movie, 1952)

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