Invasion USA: Red scare
Five isolationists walk into a bar. . .
How to describe a movie like Invasion USA? Well, I believe those French critics at Cahiers du Cinema who were so influential in the 1950s would have said something like: “Ce film est completement bonkers!”
Although frankly, “bonkers” doesn’t quite do the film justice. This low-budget 1952 work, released at the height of Communist paranoia, is a subtle as…
