Word: trumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exodus. (1960) Leon Uris' tale of modern Israel's founding in a 25th anniversary showing. Then-blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote the script under a fake name to avoid tinging this inspirational message in film with any insidious red influence. CH.56. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Part II same time Friday night...
Faulty interpretations can create much disappointment, as in the movie version of his novel The Fixer, "Horrible. That thing went to five different writers. Edward Albee was one of them but he would only do it if he had full say over it. Dalton Trumbo finally wrote the screen play and he's a hack. The film should have been done as a sort of fable, in black and white. Instead, it was all galloping Cossacks and dancing girls: an overdone fake. And that sickens a writer--to see his book faked...
...than as entertainment. Except for a bit with Donald Sutherland sportscasting the war as if the combat zone were a huge football field, the skits are heavyhanded and almost devoid of humor, the songs sing-along antiques from the coffeehouse era. At one point, reading a passage from Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, Sutherland seems paralyzed with moral fervor...
...will do no good to look for villains or heroes or saints or devils, because there were none; there were only victims," said Dalton Trumbo. Vaughn's book proves Trumbo's sorry point: the Broadway and Hollywood figures he discusses are pitiable figures, betraying each other, groveling in the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) mud, victimizing themselves to save their earning power. The few heroes, those people who defended their integrity and friends, were the most obvious victims. If they refused to cooperate they were thrown into jail, blacklisted, and destroyed...
...Sierra Madre," "The Great Dictator," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Cover Girl," "Pride of the Marines," and the Bogart classic "Casablances." Flim clips are followed by interviews with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Mitchum. The political pressures of the era are discussed by directors John Huston and Frank Capra: and writers Dalton Trumbo and Albert Maltz who were both black-listed at the time. 7:30, May 20. Chan...