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.
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
