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The Hoaxters

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Genre
  
Short, Documentary

Producer
  
Dore Schary

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.4/10
IMDb

Screenplay
  
Herman Hoffman

Narrated by
  
Marilyn Erskine

Writer
  
Herman Hoffman

Language
  
English

The Hoaxters movie poster

Release date
  
December 5, 1952 (1952-12-05)

Initial release
  
December 5, 1952 (Los Angeles)

Cast
  
Winston Churchill
,
Marilyn Erskine
,
Dore Schary
,
Robert Taylor
,
James Whit

Similar movies
  
Related Herman Hoffman movies

Tagline
  
The Inside Story of the World's Greatest Fraud!

The Hoaxters is a 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The Warner Home Video DVD release of the 1998 CNN documentary The Cold War in 2012 included this film as a special feature.

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Cast

  • Marilyn Erskine as Narrator (voice)
  • Howard Keel as Narrator (voice)
  • George Murphy as Narrator (voice)
  • Walter Pidgeon as Narrator (voice)
  • Dore Schary as Narrator (voice)
  • Barry Sullivan as Narrator (voice)
  • Robert Taylor as Narrator (voice)
  • James Whitmore as Narrator (voice)
  • Sidney Tomack as the Snake Oil Salesman (uncredited)

    • Reception

    According to MGM records the movie earned $167,000 in the US and Canada and $10,000 elsewhere.

    References

    The Hoaxters Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Hoaxters IMDb The Hoaxters themoviedb.org