But a 1947 FBI memorandum, part of a 13, 533 -page document, “ Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry,” first went after the writers Goodrich and Hackett: ...

The Construction Corps built much of Bulgaria's 20th-century infrastructure but was also used during the communist era to punish opponents of the regime and maintain control over ethnic minorities.

The film critic John Charles Moffitt defended the film: “I think Mr. Capra’s picture, though it had a banker as villain, could not be properly called a Communist picture.