THE HOUSE ON CARROLL STREET

Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels

Orion; Directed By Peter Yates

Rated PG; 100 minutes; 1987

A romantic thriller about an idealistic young woman who uncovers a dangerous conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States six years after World War II. Using the controversial events of the early 1950's as a backdrop, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, a "blacklisted" writer from the 1950's who fictionalized his experiences in "The Front", again draws on past events to re-create the suspicion and paranoia of the McCarthy era. Kelly McGillis stars as Emily Crane, an intelligent, attractive young woman with a promising media career whose political beliefs place her on a collision course with a government committee when she refuses to answer their questions. Soon after, she loses her job and finds herself the target of government surveillance and inadvertently discovers what appears to be a dangerous international criminal conspiracy.

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Screenwriter Walter Bernstein draws on his experiences on a "blacklisted" writer during the 1950's as a backdrop for this thriller about a young woman whose political beliefs place her on a collision course with a government committee when she refuses to answer their questions. Soon after, she loses her job and finds herself the target of government surveillance and inadvertently discovers what appears to be a dangerous criminal conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States after World War II.

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In this romantic thriller set in 1951, Kelly McGillis stars as a young woman whose political beliefs place her under government surveillance and who inadvertently discovers what appears to be a dangerous criminal conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States.