Tail Gunner Joe

Tail Gunner Joe

145 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 6, 1977

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.

Tail Gunner Joe

145 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 6, 1977

Tail Gunner Joe
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers
Original title Tail Gunner Joe
Directors Jud Taylor
Writers Lane Slate

Cast

Peter Boyle

as Joseph McCarthy

John Forsythe

as Paul Cunningham

Burgess Meredith

as Joseph Welch

Patricia Neal

as Margaret Chase Smith

Jean Stapleton

as Mrs. DeCamp

Ned Beatty

as Sylvester

Philip Abbott

as Scott Lucas

Wallace Rooney

as Speaker

Heather Menzies

as Logan

Wesley Addy

as Middleton

Karen Carlson

as Jean Kerr

John Carradine

as Wisconsin Farmer

Charles Cioffi

as Logan's Boss

Diana Douglas

as Sarah

Andrew Duggan

as Dwight Eisenhower

Henry Jones

as Armitage

Murray Matheson

as Publisher

Allan Miller

as Pete

Tim O'Connor

as Librarian

Alan Oppenheimer

as Eisenhower Publicist

Addison Powell

as General George C. Marshall

Andrew Prine

as Peter Parker McNair Gates

John Randolph

as Gen. Lampkin

Allan Rich

as Ray Jenkins

William Schallert

as Gen. Zwicker

Simon Scott

as Robert Ten Broeck Stevens

Robert F. Simon

as Drew Pearson

George Wyner

as Roy Cohn

Lin McCarthy

as Sen. Stuart Symington

Kelly Jean Peters

as Mrs. Sarah Gates

Robert Symonds

as President Harry Truman

Charles Siebert

as James Juliana

Sam Chew Jr.

as Robert F. Kennedy

John Chappell

as Sen. Karl Mundt

Herb Voland

as Sen. Raymond Baldwin

Edward Anhalt

as Sen. Herbert Lehman

Alan Hewitt

as Dean Acheson

Howard Hesseman

as Lt. Ted Cantwell

Jack Bannon

as Eisenhower Aide

Charles Macaulay

as Wm. Roberts

Richard M. Dixon

as Sen. Richard M. Nixon

Morgan Upton

as Clucas

Shirley O'Hara

as Marie

George Petrie

as Chas. Kraus