Storm Warning (1951) *

Ronald Raegan plays a liberal DA in a small Southern town trying to convict the Ku Klux Klan for murdering a white journalist. A pre-Civil Rights drama that tries to have it both ways: to condemn KKK as a terrorist organization, but refusing to identify the precise reasons the KKK deserved to be condemned. A Martian watching the film would have no idea that the KKK was a racist, white suprematist organization that lynched black people. He would have thought that the KKK was just out there killing white liberal intellectuals for no reason whatsoever.