FREE I MARRIED A COMMUNIST PDF Philip Roth | 352 pages | 01 Sep 2004 | Vintage Publishing | 9780099287834 | English | London, United Kingdom The Woman on Pier 13 - Wikipedia Shortly after returning home following their honeymoon, I Married a Communist couple meet Christine Norman Janis Carteran old flame of Collins. Nan immediately dislikes her. Collins becomes the target of a Communist cell and its leader, Vanning Thomas Gomezwho orders an alleged FBI informer drowned after a brief interrogation. After threatening to reveal Collins' responsibility for a murder as well as his communist past, Vanning orders the executive to sabotage the shipping industry in the San Francisco Bay by resisting union demands in a labor dispute. He claims it is impossible to leave the Communist Party. Meanwhile Norman, bitter over Collins's earlier rejection, is ordered to become closer to his brother-in-law Don Lowry Agar by indoctrinating him with their Communist world view. Norman, though, genuinely falls in love with Lowry, with Vanning claiming that she is not meant to be so emotional. I Married a Communist friend of Collins and former boyfriend of Nan, union leader Jim Travers Richard Rober cannot understand why Collins has become unreasonable to deal with. Travers is concerned about the possibility of the small number of communists in the union being able to take it over, and suspects Norman of being a communist, or at least a fellow traveler. He discusses this with Lowry, who is a new colleague. Lowry denies Norman's politics, apparently still free of communist ideology or at least an awareness of where his, by now, future wife's friends are coming from politically. Vanning interrupts them. Angry I Married a Communist Christine for breaking orders, who was supposed to be in Seattle for another two days on her day job as a photographer, Vanning tries to lean on Lowry because he is now able to expose the influence the party has regained over Collins. Lowry travels to the Collins' residence to inform them of what he has learned, but is run over by a car driven by the communist hit man J. Arnold Paul E. Burns who had observed the earlier killing with Collins. Nan, previously informed by Norman that her brother is in danger, tries to convince her husband that Lowry's killing was not an I Married a Communist. He pretends to be unconvinced. Confronting Christine, Nan is told of her husband's past, and Christine falsely, though he was with Arnold informs her that Bailey William Talman was probably responsible for Lowry's death. Preparing a suicide note, Christine is interrupted by Vanning, who thinks this is a good solution, but wishes to keep politics out of it, and destroys her confession of communist involvement. It is unclear if she does commit suicide, or whether she is thrown out of the high window. Intent on revenge, Nan befriends Bailey I Married a Communist the fairground where he has legitimate employment, and goes off with him. The hit man is saved when she is identified, and Nan is kidnapped and taken to the hidden local communist headquarters in Arnold's warehouse. Collins tracks his wife down to this location, and by threatening Arnold with a gun, is able to gain admittance. In a shootout, Bailey and Vanning are killed, and Collins fatally injured. In his last moments Nan says she still loves him. The original story forming the basis of the film by Slavin and George was first optioned then rejected by Eagle-Lion. Hughes reputedly offered the script to directors as a test for presumed communist leanings. Thirteen directors, according to Joseph Loseyturned down the film including himself. Production began in April under Robert Stevenson and lasted a month. Edgar Hoover was requested, I Married a Communist denied because the FBI was aware of rumors Hughes was using the script as a ruse. The agency feared "persons of communist sympathies" would seek to undermine the project's intentions. After the film had been completed, and ahead of planned retakes, Hughes insisted Ryan needed to be taught how to work with a gun, I Married a Communist screen tests of I Married a Communist progress being delivered to him personally. After the disappointing previews, Hughes still insisted the title I Married a Communist was the most marketable aspect of the picture, though his staff insisted otherwise. When the film was released, the staff at Variety magazine wrote a tepid review, "As a straight action fare, I Married a Communist generates enough tension to satisfy the average customer. Despite its heavy sounding title, pic hews strictly to tried and true meller formula Pic is so wary of introducing any political gab that at one point when Commie trade union tactics are touched upon, the soundtrack is dropped. The British critic Tom Milne in the Time Out Film Guide wrote: "The sterling cast can make no headway against cartoon characters, a fatuous script that defies belief, and an enveloping sense of hysteria. Nick Musuraca's noir-ish camerawork, mercifully, is stunning. It attempted to make a propaganda film that reaffirms the American way of life and familial love, but at the expense of reality. Identifying The Woman on Pier 13 as an "amalgam of propaganda and noir ", Jeff Smith considered it paradoxical "to use film to build political consensus" by borrowing "devices and storytelling strategies from the bleakest and most pessimistic I Married a Communist Hollywood ever made". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from I Married a Communist film. 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I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in s Newark, becomes a big-time s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the s. The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected. Roth has the frantic politics of this frantic time—the McCarthy era —in exact I Married a Communist. In Ira Ringold, Roth has created one of his singularly ripe, vigorous characters. I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps a classic for all time. A masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight I Married a Communist wit. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Read An Excerpt. Category: Historical Fiction Literary Fiction. Nov 02, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Paperback —. 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When Brad resists, communist femme fatale Christine works through his brother-in-law Don. But Brad's new wife Nan sees that her husband and brother are under pressure; when she investigates on her own, party boss Vanning takes ruthless action. Ryan plays Brad Collins, who falls for lovely Nan practically the moment he meets her. They marry quickly, without knowing much about one another. One of the things Nan doesn't know is that Brad used to be Frank Johnson, a member of the Communist party.