The House on Carroll Street (1988)
DVD5 (VIDEO_TS) | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track) | 01:36:57 | 4,14 Gb
Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish | Subs: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
Genre: Thriller | 1 win | USA
Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful Life photo editor living in 1950s New York, until she is called before the Senate Un-American Activities Committee to testify about her "communist" associations. When she refuses to divulge the names of friends in her civil liberties group, she loses her employment and her friends. In desperation, she takes a job reading books for Miss Venable, a somewhat crotchety lady (Jessica Tandy) who lives in a quiet residential neighborhood. Then, while taking a break in Miss Venable's back yard, Emily overhears something from the house behind that compels her to investigate and leads her eventually to conclude that it is the headquarters of a group smuggling in ex-Nazi scientists for some mysterious purpose. Meanwhile, she is being harassed by two FBI men, on behalf of the Senate Committee, as well as by a sinister, McCarthyite, Senate investigator named Salwen (Mandy Patinkin)……