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Big Jim McLain is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Ludwig released in USA on 30 august 1952 with John Wayne
Big Jim McLain (1952)
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Add to a movie listBig Jim McLain is a 1952 political thriller film starring John Wayne and James Arness as HUAC investigators hunting down communists in the post-war Hawaii organized labor scene. Edward Ludwig directed.
This was the first film in which Wayne played a contemporary law enforcement officer (as opposed to an Old West lawman). Near the end of his career, in the mid-1970s, he took on two more such roles, each time playing an urban cop.
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House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.Actors
John Wayne
(Jim McLain)
Nancy Olson
(Nancy Vallon)
James Arness
(Mal Baxter)
Alan Napier
(Sturak)
Veda Ann Borg
(Madge)
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