McCarthy, a new film about 1950s anti-communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is set for worldwide distribution. The film stars Michael Shannon as McCarthy and Game of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke as McCarthy’s wife Jean Kerr.
“[McCarthy is] the first feature film to look at the man behind McCarthyism,” the logline to the film says. “To understand what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials, and venomous populism.”
McCarthy has been shooting since 2022 and has no release date yet.
It’s amazing that more than 70 years after Joe McCarthy went after communists (with a lot of evidence, even if recklessly), the Hollywood Left is retelling (and retelling and retelling) his story. There have been countless movies, TV shows, books,
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