Frank is what you might call a regular Joe with a brilliant mind and a deep dark secret, a secret that young Doctor Collis Courtland shares.
It’s a time in history when it’s just as dangerous to be accused of being red as it is to be suspected of being lavender.Īnd this is what some people call “the good old days.”įrank Mackenzie is a WW II veteran studying physics at Clarence Tenn Polytechnic on the GI Bill.
It’s a time in which better dead than red McCarthyism is in full swing, having little to do with empirical evidence and everything to do with suspicion and paranoia and rumor that the US, and Hollywood in particular, is rife with commie traitors to the country’s democracy. Racial prejudice has the backing of popular opinion at best, popular apathy at worst while miscegenation and homosexuality are both considered crimes punishable by law. The year is 1948: World War II has ended but the Cold War heats up significantly when the Soviet Union detonates the bomb that would serve to become the catalyst for a decades long arms race. Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
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