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Hollywood delivered a steady stream of "red scare" movies in the 1950s. They warned of a Soviet takeover, exposed subversion next door, or showed ordinary Americans drawn into the Communist Party’s web. The most entertaining were espionage tales. Secret exchanges, divided loyalties, and people who aren’t what they seem: familiar territory for film noir. The fear of espionage was not fiction. The United States used atomic bombs in 1945; the Soviet Union didn't develop one unti