Since I learned of its impending release, I have looked forward to seeing Trumbo . The film depicts the story of Dalton Trumbo, a Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted in 1947 along with other artists for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the U. S. Congress. Trumbo and other artists were accused of injecting Communist propaganda into Hollywood films. He spent eleven months in federal prison in 1950 for contempt. In the 1976 documentary Hollywood On Trial Trumbo said of the trial: "As far as I was concerned, it was a completely just verdict. I had contempt for that Congress and have had contempt for several since. And on the basis of guilt or innocence, I could never really complain very much. That this was a crime or misdemeanor was the complaint, my complaint." The current film begins in 1947 when Dalton Trumbo (played by Bryan Cranston) was a leading screenwriter. Trumbo was a Community sympat...
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