My Son John

Mother Lucille (Helen Hayes) doesn't yet know that friendly stranger Stedman (Van Heflin) is really a G-man investigating her reddish son, in Leo McCarey's cold-war drama My Son John, 1952.

Mother (Helen Hayes) receives wayward academic son John (Robert Walker) who has a warm but testy exchange with father (Dean Jagger) and the doctor (Minor Watson) in an early scene from Leo McCarey's anti-communist drama My Son John, 1952.

Father Dan (Dean Jagger) attempts a friendly chat with visiting son John (Robert Walker), mother Lucille (Helen Hayes) quietly aghast, in Leo McCarey's anti-communist drama My Son John, 1952.

Somber credits and opening scene from arch-conservative writer-director Leo McCarey's anti-communist tract My Son John, 1952, starring Helen Hayes, Robert Walker and Dean Jagger.