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Trumbo

Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.

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  • "TRUMBO is a portrait of Oscar®-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the wit and talent of whom is legendary. Forced into exile from Hollywood by Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, Trumbo continued to write by using several different pseudonyms, under which he produced some of his widely-acclaimed and award-winning screenplays. Letter-writing became the repository of Trumbo's extraordinary talents, and these correspondences serve as a wonderfully entertaining testament to the need for self-expression, social and political involvement, and remaining fallibly human in the face of barbarism. Told through performances of some of these extraordinary letters, by an award-winning cast of actors, archival and contemporary interviews and clips from his films, TRUMBO illustrates how his unerring belief in the freedom of speech and the power of the written word allowed him to fight against political persecution."
  • "Based on the off-Broadway play by Christopher Trumbo, son of legendary Hollywood blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, this documentary takes into account the career of the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and unfortunate member of the Hollywood Ten. As a member of the Hollywood Ten he was convicted of contempt of Congress, and for refusing to name names he was sent to prison for 11 months. At the time (beginning in the late 40s), Congress was trying to ferret out those who had joined the Communist Party and/or its sympathizers. Trumbo and his fellow screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers were victims of Cold War politics, the "Red Scare," and McCarthyism. The official word was that there was no "blacklist," but after completing his prison sentence Trumbo moved his family to Mexico, and there, until the early 60s, he wrote thirty scripts under pseudonyms, two of which went on to win Academy Awards for screenwriting. This film brilliantly uses actors Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane (who originated the role of Dalton Trumbo in the play), Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Donald Sutherland to read the letters and recorded testimony of Mr. Trumbo. And we get incisive interviews, including those with Broadway producer Emanuel Azenberg, Walter Bernstein, Kirk Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Lew Irwin, Kate Lardner (daughter of Hollywood Ten member Ring Lardner, Jr.), Victor Navasky, and Trumbo's children, filmmaker Christopher and daughter Mitzi. Even better we get lots of terrific archival footage with Dalton Trumbo himself, and footage from some of his films. -- website."
  • "Trumbo is a portrait of Oscar®-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the wit and talent of whom is legendary. Forced into exile from Hollywood by Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, Trumbo continued to write by using several different pseudonyms, under which he produced some of his widely-acclaimed and award-winning screenplays. Letter-writing became the repository of Trumbo's extraordinary talents, and these correspondences serve as a wonderfully entertaining testament to the need for self-expression, social and political involvement, and remaining fallibly human in the face of barbarism. Told through performances of some of these extraordinary letters-by an award-winning cast of actors-archival and contemporary interviews and clips from his films, TRUMBO illustrates how his unerring belief in the freedom of speech and the power of the written word allowed him to fight against political persecution.--Kanopy."
  • "Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Includes deleted footage and photo gallery."
  • "Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression."@en

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  • "Biography"
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