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I'm out of Trumbo and now waiting for Stuck to start. Trumbo was a solid look at perhaps the most famous member of the Hollywood Ten, the 10 "unfriendly witnesses" who refused to testify before the House Unamerican Activities Committee during HUAC's investigation into Communist influence in Hollywood. Dalton Trumbo was a salty dog who penned some remarkable letters, read in the film by the likes of Liam Neeson, Joan Allen and Nathan Lane, who brings down the house with his reading of a jailhouse letter from Trumbo to his son about the glories of masturbation. Trumbo served a year for contempt of Congress; he got his big post-blacklist break when Kirk Douglas brought him onboard Spartacus, for which he received an official screenwriting credit. This is a dark and fascinating period of Hollywood history that's well worth studying. |
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