The Broadway Cinema, featuring I Married a Maoist
I Married a Maoist was a pre-War anti-Communist propaganda movie in the drama genre.
Background[]
I Married a Maoist was directed and financed by the U.S. Center of Anti-American Activities, and was filmed in PanaLuxe color. Its plot centered on an average American housewife named Lorraine. She becomes horrified to learn that her husband, Robert, has taken up left-wing beliefs after a co-worker, John, died in a factory accident following 80 hour work weeks. Robert starts to talk of organizing a protest and perhaps abolishing "this system." Lorraine uses the emergency telephone line to report Robert to a policeman, Officer MacArthur, saying with horror that she "married a Maoist."[1]
Although its release date is unknown, it was still being shown in theaters around the time of the Great War and was advertised in radio programs.[1] Its title can still be seen on the marquee of Broadway Cinema in the Capital Wasteland.
Appearances[]
I Married a Maoist is mentioned in Fallout 3 and Fallout 76, introduced in the Once in a Blue Moon update.
Behind the scenes[]
This movie is a cultural reference to the 1949 film The Woman on Pier 13, originally slated to be titled I Married a Communist. The lead characters' names (Lorraine, Robert and John) are also references to the lead actors in The Woman on Pier 13 (Laraine Day, Robert Ryan and John Agar).