The film is said by cinema historian J. Hoberman to have been inspired by the case of Edward U. Condon, a distinguished scientist on the Manhattan Project who resigned in protest of the heavy-handed security policies of General Groves. Condon later fell afoul of the HUAC; one of its reports, calling him the "weakest link" in nuclear security, haunted him for years. The movie obviously took the HUAC point of view, wildly exaggerating inflated rumors and false charges that Condon had been a spy.
Review of Walk a Crooked Mile
