Communism

Angels in America is more about gay rights and the AIDS crisis than Ray Cohn, the man most famous for the Rosenburg case and working for McCarthy.

High Noon's plot can be seen as an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare. The writer, a former Communist party member, refused to name names.

[High Noon is] the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life. - John Wayne.

John Wayne supported blacklisting and disliked the anti-Red Scare theme of the film.

I made Rio Bravo because I didn't like High Noon. Neither did Duke (John Wayne). I didn't think a good town marshal was going to run around town like a chicken with his head cut off asking everyone to help. And who saves him? His Quaker wife. That isn't my idea of a good Western. - Howard Hawks

Eisenstein didn't finish the film, and it's reconstructed from film stills.

Mark Cousins says that her fascistic speech warning against the 'people from the east' is an allegory for the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Chaplin was denied re-entry into the United States because he was considered too progressive by the government. This film is Chaplin's critique of McCarthyism.