Jim McLain (John Wayne) and Mal Baxter (James Arness), a pair of top communist hunters, have discovered a new cell in Hawaii. With the help of newspaper reporter Phil Briggs (Red McQueen), McLain and Baxter go after the elusive lynchpin, Namaka, and discover there’s a bigger menace in Honolulu than they could have imagined. Alan Napier stars as communist kingpin Sturak in this action-filled 1950s crime drama.
While Big Jim McLain will hardly rank with the greatest of John Wayne’s films, it expresses the conflict between loyal American citizens and law enforcement officials and the threat posed by Soviet agents. Only since the release of some of the USSR archives can we see how real the threat was although rarely as simplistic as the film shows it. Big Jim McLain needs to be viewed in the context of its times just as other US wartime action films reflect the tenor of our role in World War II and how people saw the enemy of that day.
The Duke (in ties and jackets?) ferrets out Commies in Hawaii along with strapping partner James Arness. For a movie so obviously filled to the brim with machismo, the results surprise us with just a scene or two of fisticuffs and much more romance between Wayne and Nancy Olsen (who moves quickly, and can you blame her?). The black-and-white cinematography is quite beautiful, with silvery shots of the tropics in all their ’50s splendor. “Big Jim McLain” features one of John Wayne’s best walk-throughs; he looks a little sheepish, but he’s so amiable you forget he’s really not in character. The drama at hand is tidied up rather quickly, yet the film is directed with a steady hand and has an easy-going pace. Its flag-waving stance is 100% purple heart-patriotic, but that’s certainly in keeping with the era, as well as with Wayne’s all-American persona.
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