Trumbo [videorecording] / Samuel Goldwyn Films, Red Envelope Entertainment, Safehouse Pictures and Filbert Steps Productions in association with Reno Productions present ; produced by Will Battersby, Tory Tunnell, Alan Klingenstein, David Viola ; directed by Peter Askin.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Documentary. Based on the play by Christopher Trumbo. Originally released in 2007. Special features: Paul Giamatti reads Trumbo's letter to Ring Lardner, Jr. (June 1953) ; Danny Glover reads Trumbo's letter to Arthur, film associate (December 1947) ; Photo gallery. Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, Donald Sutherland.
Summary:
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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