The plot is about a shadowy group called the Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center. Its poster shows a handsome Aryan lad against the waving American flag. Their slogan, "Join The Crusaders -- Fight for America!". The implication is clear...the Crusaders will be against anyone who doesn't look, sound or believe the way that Aryan poster boy does. When a columnist is killed while looking into the Crusaders, Howard Malloy finds himself appointed a special prosecutor. He also finds himself in a noxious mess that combines crime, nativism and the reactionary beliefs of some of the privileged few. You can play the amusing Hollywood game of Spot the Star Cameo. In unbilled bits that last a second or two are such luminaries as Burgess Meredith, John Garfield, Marsha Hunt, Everett Sloane, Henry Fonda and Marlene Dietrich.
"Sick of chewy ethnocentric baloney films. This is like a nice cold shower. "
"WOW! What the hell did I just watch? Once seen, you can not unsee!"
"Charlie, newspaperman [Myron McCormick]: Fear, Howard, fear! It’s a terrible weapon. You saw what it did to Mrs. Borg this afternoon. Howard, Asst...."
"Well, I stayed with it until the bitter end but I found myself rather bored and clock watching before it was half way through. Nothing much to recomme..."
"I found the view of this movie tedius and almost superficial when it came to content. I kept expecting the big plan to evolve from the way the plot wa..."