**SPOILERS** Beautifully photographed period piece, New York City circa 1951,about a young women asst. photo editor Emily Crane, Kelly McGillis, who's let go by her employer Life Magazine for refusing to give or name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Getting a job as a reader for an old women Miss. Venable ,Jessica Tandy, Emily one afternoon notices this young man Alan ,Jonathan Hogan, across the way in the house on Carroll Street through the window talking to Ray Salwen, Mandy Patinkin,the man who interrogated her at the HUAC hearings. Becoming obsessed with the young man Emily follows him on the subway to Rockaway Queens and finds that he spends his time going to mostly Jewish cemeteries taking down the names of those recently departed? Not knowing what she's getting into Emily uncovers a secret plan to smuggle ex-Nazi scientist's into the US, giving them Jewish name and identities as a cover! These ex-Nazis are to be use by the US Government in their expertise in the fight against the Red Menace, or International Communism.
This secret government operation is headed by the aforementioned anti-Communist fanatic and borderline psycho HUAC investigator Ray Salwen. It was Salwen who later shows how unstable he is by pouring an entire bottle of ketchup, his way of emphasizing the Red Manace, over a clean white table-cloth in order to impress and show a shocked Emily in how the menace of Communisum has spread over the globe!
Emily feels guilty when Alan, who put his trust in her , is murdered before he can talk to G-Man Cochran, Jeff Daniels, who became romantically involved with her. Salwen who's involved with the Nazis being smuggled into the country has his goons try to murder Emily. This before she let's the cat out of the bag about the US Government being allied with high ranking members of the defunct Adolf Hitler's Germany. Salwen ends up on the losing end when he makes a fatal miss-step on the roof of Grand Central Station and takes the fall for what his superiors have been doing since the end of WWII: secretly aiding ex-Nazis in the war against Commnisum.
P.S the movie "The House on Carroll Street" is not as far fetched as one might think with President Turman passing the secret order Project, or Operation, Paper-Clip in September 1946 having the US Immigration Department allow hundreds of ex-Nazi scientists, which many of Truman's supporters and admirers say that he didn't know about, into the US. This was done in order to help in developing rockets and other military hardware in fighting the Communists Menace overseas in far away places like Korea and Vietnam.
Getting a job as a reader for an old women Miss. Venable ,Jessica Tandy, Emily one afternoon notices this young man Alan ,Jonathan Hogan, across the way in the house on Carroll Street through the window talking to Ray Salwen, Mandy Patinkin,the man who interrogated her at the HUAC hearings. Becoming obsessed with the young man Emily follows him on the subway to Rockaway Queens and finds that he spends his time going to mostly Jewish cemeteries taking down the names of those recently departed? Not knowing what she's getting into Emily uncovers a secret plan to smuggle ex-Nazi scientist's into the US, giving them Jewish name and identities as a cover! These ex-Nazis are to be use by the US Government in their expertise in the fight against the Red Menace, or International Communism.
This secret government operation is headed by the aforementioned anti-Communist fanatic and borderline psycho HUAC investigator Ray Salwen. It was Salwen who later shows how unstable he is by pouring an entire bottle of ketchup, his way of emphasizing the Red Manace, over a clean white table-cloth in order to impress and show a shocked Emily in how the menace of Communisum has spread over the globe!
Emily feels guilty when Alan, who put his trust in her , is murdered before he can talk to G-Man Cochran, Jeff Daniels, who became romantically involved with her. Salwen who's involved with the Nazis being smuggled into the country has his goons try to murder Emily. This before she let's the cat out of the bag about the US Government being allied with high ranking members of the defunct Adolf Hitler's Germany. Salwen ends up on the losing end when he makes a fatal miss-step on the roof of Grand Central Station and takes the fall for what his superiors have been doing since the end of WWII: secretly aiding ex-Nazis in the war against Commnisum.
P.S the movie "The House on Carroll Street" is not as far fetched as one might think with President Turman passing the secret order Project, or Operation, Paper-Clip in September 1946 having the US Immigration Department allow hundreds of ex-Nazi scientists, which many of Truman's supporters and admirers say that he didn't know about, into the US. This was done in order to help in developing rockets and other military hardware in fighting the Communists Menace overseas in far away places like Korea and Vietnam.