Concealed Enemies

1984 American PBS docudrama

Concealed Enemies is a 1984 American PBS docudrama, produced by WGBH-TV in Boston,[1] about the events leading to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss. Directed by Jeff Bleckner, written by Hugh Whitemore[2] and starring Edward Herrmann as Hiss, John Harkins as Whittaker Chambers and Peter Riegert as Richard Nixon, the two-part miniseries won the 1984 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.[3]

The title comes from August 25, 1948, known as "Confrontation Day," during which Whittaker Chambers stated:

> The story has spread that in testifying against Mr. Hiss I am working out some old grudge, or motives of revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity, but in a moment of history in which this Nation now stands, so help me God, I could not do otherwise.[4][5]

Senator Joseph McCarthy paraphrased this phrase with his own: "the enemy within."[6]

Goldcrest Films invested £558,000 in the film and received £545,000 causing them a loss of £13,000.[7]

## References

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1. ^ Butterfield, Fox (May 6, 1984). "TV Plays the Hiss Case Down the Middle". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
2. ^ Hastings, Julianne (May 3, 1984). "Hiss-Chambers spy tale told in PBS'S 'Concealed Enemies'". upi.com. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
3. ^ Roberts, Jerry (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press. p. 47\. ISBN 9780810863781.
4. ^ Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 799 (total).
5. ^ "Hiss-Chambers Hearing". C-SPAN. August 25, 1948. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
6. ^ "'ENEMIES FROM WITHIN' SPEECH Senator Joseph McCarthy's 1950 Lincoln Day Address by Senator Joseph McCarthy". Highline Public Schools. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
7. ^ Eberts, Jake; Illott, Terry (1990). My indecision is final. Faber and Faber. p. 657.

## External links

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* Concealed Enemies at IMDb

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Works directed by Jeff Bleckner

Films|

* Do You Remember Love (1985)
* Brotherly Love (1985)
* White Water Summer (1987)
* A Father for Charlie (1995)
* Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
* The Beast (1996)
* Blackout Effect (1998)
* Rear Window (1998)
* Flowers for Algernon (2000)
* Black River (2001)
* The Music Man (2003)
* Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005)
* The Russell Girl (2008)
* Loving Leah (2009)
* Beyond the Blackboard (2011)
* Remember Sunday (2013)

Miniseries|

* Concealed Enemies (1984)
* Fresno (1986)
* In the Best of Families (1994)
* The Beach Boys: An American Family (2000)

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

1970s|

* Tom Brown's Schooldays (1973)
* Columbo (season 3) (1974)
* Benjamin Franklin (1975)
* Upstairs, Downstairs (season 4) (1976)
* Roots (1977)
* Holocaust (1978)
* Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

1980s|

* Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1980)
* Shōgun (1981)
* Marco Polo (1982)
* The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1983)
* Concealed Enemies (1984)
* The Jewel in the Crown (1985)
* Peter the Great (1986)
* A Year in the Life (1987)
* The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
* War and Remembrance (1989)

1990s|

* Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990)
* Separate but Equal (1991)
* A Woman Named Jackie (1992)
* Prime Suspect II (1993)
* Prime Suspect III (1994)
* Joseph (1995)
* Gulliver's Travels (1996)
* Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement (1997)
* From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
* Hornblower ("The Even Chance" / "The Examination for Lieutenant" / "The Duchess and the Devil" / "The Frogs and the Lobsters") (1999)

2000s|

* The Corner (2000)
* Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
* Band of Brothers (2002)
* Taken (2003)
* Angels in America (2004)
* The Lost Prince (2005)
* Elizabeth I (2006)
* Broken Trail (2007)
* John Adams (2008)
* Little Dorrit (2009)

2010s|

* The Pacific (2010)
* Downton Abbey (season 1) (2011)
* Game Change (TV Movie) (2012)
* Behind the Candelabra (TV Movie) (2013)
* Fargo (season 1) (2014)
* Olive Kitteridge (2015)
* The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016)
* Big Little Lies (season 1) (2017)
* The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018)
* Chernobyl (2019)

2020s|

* Watchmen (2020)
* The Queen's Gambit (2021)
* The White Lotus (season 1) (2022)
* Beef (2023)
* Baby Reindeer (2024)

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