Roddy McDowall
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The Steel Fist: Directed by Wesley Barry. With Roddy McDowall, Kristine Miller, Harry Lauter, Rand Brooks. In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
The Steel Fist is a 1952 American drama film directed by Wesley Barry and written by C.K. Kivari. The film stars Roddy McDowall, Kristine Miller, Harry Lauter, Rand Brooks, Byron Foulger and Kate Drain Lawson. The film was released on January 6, 1952 by Monogram Pictures.
The Steel Fist is just that kind of re-tread. Roddy McDowall stars as a student in an unnamed Central European country who leads a protest against the Soviet Union, which has set up a puppet government in his homeland.
In an unidentified Central European country "somewhere behind the Iron Curtain," a group of students stage a riot to protest the Soviet occupying government's forced labor program. Student Erik Kardin leads the protest, and when the police hunt for him, turns for help to his uncle, Prof. Kardin.
The Steel Fist. A Soviet student escapes the terrorism of an Eastern bloc nation with the help of the underground movement.
- Drama
In the early 1950s, Russia's brutal, murdering leader Josef Stalin (staling is Russian for "steel") became extremely paranoid of Jewish doctors, who he claimed were sabotaging Russian ideology. The controls were tightened and many were falsely accused and executed.
Roddy McDowall stars as Erik, an idealistic young student in an unnamed Iron Curtain country. Pursued by the communist police for speaking his views, Erik is sheltered by the underground.
