I give Lovejoy 5 stars especially the final scene when he reconciles with his son...it brought me to tears...Dorothy Hart is described in IMDB as a luminescent beauty, and I must concur.
Too bad she retired early, as I feel that she was a gorgeous woman, who captured the screen's attention at all times.

Believe it or not, this 1951 film was nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary field. As viewers will see, the production is in fact a work of fiction with a cast of actors and a standard Hollywood approach to story-telling. True, the claim was made that the picture is based on actual events- an old ploy in the entertainment business. But the important feature to keep in mind is that every studio put out at least one of these anti-communist turkeys at the time in order to mollify HUAC and the newspapers, as well as to find out who among their contracted employees might reveal themselves as "disloyal" by turning down the assignment. This was the height of the Second Red Scare, and the most preposterous accusations were swirling, not only against American communists but anyone else Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover decided to smear.