Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...multinational concerns are not bound by long-term contracts. As a result, Iran expects total sales in 1977 to decline about 10% below original predictions, and will cut production accordingly. Venting their wrath, the Iranians warned that companies reducing purchases would be placed on an OPEC blacklist and presumably denied deliveries in the event of future scarcities...
There is a certain irony that in America's bicentennial year almost as much ink has been spilled over Joe McCarthy and the witch-hunts of the 1950s as on the virtues of George Washington. Woody Allen stands up against the blacklist and prying Congressional Committees in The Front; Lillian Hellman provides her view of the period, often scathing, in Scoundrel Time; and a spate of books, articles and film has appeared dealing with the Hollywood Ten trial, the Hiss and Rosenberg cases. Professional historians are also now taking a closer look at McCarthyism and America's entry into...
What remains disappointing, however, is that men so directly involved in the blacklist turmoil failed to create a more moving film. Certainly for all of them The Front was a painful labor, but it also must have been a labor of love, filled with lofty purpose and deep emotion. Why, then, such a mediocre product? Although Allen and Mostel turn in excellent performances, neither are quite right for their roles. Allen particularly does not fit in a movie of this type. He is the classic nebbish, but the very qualities that contribute to his comic genius detract from the solemnity...
...inability of good, decent people to oppose the anti-Communist crusaders is highlighted by the dilemma of Phil Sussman (Herschel Bernardi), the producer who must obey his superior's orders and fire Brown. Despite his moral objections, Sussman complies with the dictates of the blacklist, feeding Brown a phony line about his talents being too overwhelming for the show rather than admit the real reason behind the firing...
Outraged by this episode, Barret quits her job as Sussman's assistant and asks Prince to join her in writing a pamphlet exposing the industry's blacklist. But Prince, content with the benefits he is reaping from the system, has no intention of ruining his secure position. That position, of course, is not as secure as Prince thinks, and he discovers the perilous consequences of the witch-hunt mentality when he, too is investigated by Hennesey and subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. His appearance before that committee forces Prince to confront what he has tried to ignore...