Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
2h 25m
Running Time
February 6, 1977Release Date
Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
2h 25m
Running Time
February 6, 1977Release Date
Plot.
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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Cast & Crew.
Peter Boyle
Joe McCarthy
John Forsythe
Paul Cunningham
Heather Menzies
Logan
Jean Stapleton
Mrs. DeCamp
Burgess Meredith
Joseph Welch
Ned Beatty
Sylvester
Jud Taylor
Director
Philip Abbott
Scott Lucas
Lane Slate
Writer
George Eckstein
Producer
Wallace Rooney
Speaker
Ric Waite
Cinematographer
Bernard J. Small
Editor
Wesley Addy
Middleton
Karen Carlson
Jean Kerr
Patricia Neal
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith
John Carradine
Wisconsin Farmer
Charles Cioffi
Logan's Boss
Diana Douglas
Sarah
Andrew Duggan
Dwight Eisenhower
Henry Jones
Armitage
Murray Matheson
Publisher
Allan Miller
Pete
Tim O'Connor
Librarian
Alan Oppenheimer
Eisenhower Publicist
Addison Powell
General George C. Marshall
Andrew Prine
Peter Parker McNair Gates
John Randolph
Gen. Lampkin
Allan Rich
Ray Jenkins
William Schallert
Gen. Zwicker
Simon Scott
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
Robert F. Simon
Drew Pearson
George Wyner
Roy Cohn
Lin McCarthy
Sen. Stuart Symington
Kelly Jean Peters
Mrs. Sarah Gates
Robert Symonds
President Harry Truman
Charles Siebert
James Juliana
Sam Chew Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy
John Chappell
Sen. Karl Mundt
Herb Voland
Sen. Raymond Baldwin
Details.
Wiki.
Tail Gunner Joe is a 1977 television movie dramatizing the life of U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican who claimed knowledge of communist infiltration of the U.S. government during the 1950s. The film was broadcast on NBC-TV. It was nominated for six Emmy awards and won two: best writing and best supporting actor for Burgess Meredith's portrayal of attorney Joseph N. Welch. It starred Peter Boyle (as McCarthy) and John Forsythe. Robert F. Simon appeared as journalist Drew Pearson.
The nickname 'Tail Gunner Joe' is a derisive term for the Senator that originated from his false claim to have been a tail gunner on American bombers during World War II.