What award-winning movie, loved by millions, regarded as a classic, and placed on the National Film Registry, was regarded by the FBI as a Communist trick on the masses and subversive? (The male lead, one of America's all-time favorite actors, regarded his role as his favorite. The movie still brings tears to the eyes of viewers, long after its release.)

complete guess here. Was it Frank Capra's
It's a Wonderful Life ?
It just seems to fit your criteria

quote:

It's a Wonderful Life

That's it. Good job.

For those that don't believe, look here, at the FBI files.

http://www.paperlessarchives.com/compic.html

Files include FBI "reviews" of main stream films it believed communist writers, directors, and actors successfully inserted communist propaganda into. Analysis of the plot points of Frank Capra's movie "It's a Wonderful Life", finds communist tricks to make bankers and the rich look bad. Analysis cites a comparison of the movie to a Russian film made 15 years earlier titled "The Letter."
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By the way, the title of this thread, "They're Everywhere" refers not to Communists, but to those who saw a Red under every bed, and wanted to look at what was going on in the bed anyway.

Thanks Dorian..it really was a complete guess! First of all I thought of Citizen Kane but what gave it away was the tear jerker clue at the end.
Though I have to add; that it has never brought tears to my eyes, and I much prefer "A Christmas Story" directed by Bob Clark in 1983.
Now that brings tears of laughter to my eyes LOL