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...Trial, which concerns the HUAC investigations and the subsequent blacklisting of several hundred writers, directors, producers and performers in both movies and television, focuses primarily on the men who went to jail for contempt of Congress. These ten - the group included Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr. and Director Edward Dmytryk - declined, sometimes indignantly, sometimes bemusedly, to answer the persistent questions of the committee chairman concerning their alleged Communist Party affiliations. "I could answer your question," Ring Lardner told the committee, "but I'd hate myself in the morning." Since Communist Party membership was not illegal, the ten argued - with...
...came with the subpoena, the process of "getting ready to become nobody." Halpern shows the progressive effect of pressure and time on the writers. They age, dry up, crease and sag--but those with spirit make their physicality irrelevant. The polar two in the film are Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk...
Sadly, the repentant friendly witness, Edward Dmytryk, can be watched falling apart; he presents an outlay of all the conflicts playing inside the weak paradigm. Dmytryk stood with Ten, went to jail, came out and gave names; he was subsequently hired by Hollywood's reigning young liberal Stanley Kramer. Now, his pictures and career faded, all he does is apologize and explain with a slight tremble. Trumbo's pictures were no better than Dmytryk's for the most part (his dialogue stank) but he had his integrity and his anger to clutch to, and it kept...
SUNDAY: The Caine Mutiny. Despite the teapot typhoons. Edward Dmytryk's 1954 sea drama is a powerful film with a devastating court martial climax. Humphrey, CH. 7. Noon. Color. 2 hrs. The Day the Earth Steed Still. Michael Rennie descends from an allen space rover to demand that Earth abandon nuclear testing in one of the early Sci.Fi greats. CH. 56. Noon...
Directed by EDWARD DMYTRYK Screenplay by ENNIO Dl CONCINI, EDWARD DMYTRYK and MARIA PIA FUSCO...