The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Emily Crane left her home one morning and stepped into a nightmare.
Director: Peter Yates · Writer: Walter Bernstein
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.
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Trailer
Director
Peter Yates
Cast
Kelly McGillis
Emily 
Jeff Daniels
Cochran 
Mandy Patinkin
Salwen 
Jessica Tandy
Miss Venable 
Jonathan Hogan
Alan 
Remak Ramsay
Senator Byington 
Kenneth Welsh
Hackett 
Christopher Buchholz
Stefan 
James Rebhorn
The Official 
Charles McCaughan
Salwen Aide 1 
Randle Mell
Salwen Aide 2 
Michael Flanagan
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**_Kelly McGillis plays a Nancy Drew-like character in early 50’s Manhattan_** A picture editor for Life magazine (McGillis) loses her job in the Big Apple upon refusing to name names for the House Un-American Activities Committee. She then snoops around a German-speaking man with dubious immigration status, which draws the ire of the Committee's main Senate prosecutor (Mandy Patinkin) and the assistance of an amicable FBI agent (Jeff Daniels). “The House on Carroll Street” (1988) is an old fashioned Hitchcockian crime drama/thriller in which an innocent person stumbles upon something nefarious involving shady government officials and the corresponding cover-up. The events take place four years after the start of the Cold War when the US Government wanted to secure a scientific lead over the Soviets. The pièce de résistance is a clash at Grand Central Station in the last ac…
