Debut of actresses Barbra Fuller, Betty Lou Gerson, Kay Riehl and Mary DeGolyer.
The Red Menace (1949) was one of several anti-Communist films made in Hollywood in the early days of the Cold War. Some others were The Iron Curtain (1948), The Red Danube (1949), I Married a Communist aka The Woman on Pier 13 (1949), and The Whip Hand (1951).