'Hellbrew of Hate': The New Relevance of Cold War Anti-Communist Movies

'Hellbrew of Hate': The New Relevance of Cold War Anti-Communist Movies Mark Judge 10:00 AM | June 28, 2026 AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty These movies aren’t bad. In fact, many of them are great. This was the thought I had in 2024, when I attended the American Film Institute’s series “Fabulous 50s.” The series highlighted American movies from the 1950s. There were classics screened: Ben-Hur. Carmen Jones, A Streetcar Named Desire. The Night of the Hunter, Singin’ in the Rain, and my favorite, Sweet Smell of Success. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Also screened were some of the anti-communist movies of the Eisenhower era.

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