This film was made during the height of McCarthyism and shows it. The film glorifies the work of the Un-American Activities agents who went around looking for communists behind every tree and under every rock. I seriously doubt that the story line has any real validity, but instead was an excuse for making a film in Hawaii that was in keeping with the paranoia of the times. The sound and editing is terrible, and the acting is almost silly. This film should be retitled BOOGIE BOOGIE BOOGIE -- and I don't mean in the dancing sense.
Review of Big Jim McLain
