CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The Road Not Taken

2. The Red Sextet

3. Calling Dr. Death

4. Creatures from the Id

5. Worlds Elsewhere

6. Amid the Alien Corn

7. Apocalypse Then

8. Red Skies over China

9. “Better Dead Than Red”

10. Commies, Commies Everywhere

11. Microfilm Mania

12. Madness Risen from Hell

13. Curtain Up!

14. Walking a Tightrope

15. The Forgotten War

16. Meanwhile, Back in the West . . .

17. Alfred Hitchcock and Cold War Espionage

18. Hollywood’s Cold Warrior: John Wayne

19. Home Front Liberals

20. The Year of Living Dangerously

21. After Such Knowledge

NOTES

FILMOGRAPHY, TELEVISION, RADIO

INDEX