Botschafter in Moskau
In 1947, studio executives told the committee that wartime films – such as "Mission to Moscow", "The North Star", and "Song of Russia" – could be considered pro-Soviet propaganda, but claimed that the films were valuable in the context of the Allied war effort, and that they were made (in the case of "Mission to Moscow") at the request of White House officials. In response to the House investigations, most studios produced a number of anti-communist and anti-Soviet propaganda films such as "The Red Menace" (August 1949), "The Red Danube" (October 1949), "The Woman on Pier 13" (October 1949), "Guilty of Treason" (May 1950, about the ordeal and trial of Cardinal József Mindszenty), "I Was a Communist for the FBI" (May 1951, Academy Award nominated for best documentary 1951, also serialized for radio), "Red Planet Mars" (May 1952), and John Wayne's "Big Jim McLain" (August 1952). Universal-International Pictures was the only major studio that did not produce such a film.