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Balding Sam Wood, producer and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), had no hesitation in using the word Communist and in applying it to some of the cinema's best-known writers: Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson. But Wood was not content merely to pin the label on them. Said...
Other witnesses told a similar story. Jack L. Warner, live wire of the Warner brothers, ticked off a list of scriptwriters he said he had refused to rehire because they were "suspected." Trumbo and Lawson heard themselves named again. Others in Warner's little Red book: Ring Lardner Jr., Clifford Odets, Gordon Kahn, Howard Koch. Paunchy Louis B. Mayer, boss...
...said he had three alleged Communists still on his payroll. He named .them as Stewart, Trumbo and Lester Cole...
General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washing ton and Abraham Lincoln zealously follow ing the Communist Party Line in recent years. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, John Marshall and Jesse James are also cast for bit parts in Trumbo's production. If the devil can quote Scripture, surely an irritated screenwriter can dip into The Federalist. A chapter of The Remarkable Andrew is devoted to the remarkable Dalton's attempt to outwit charges of Communism and pacifism with tedious parodies of Red-baiting...
Dreiser's tract is largely an attack on this felonious isle, this seat of tyrants, this England. He is also so fearfully wrought up over the present state of the U. S. that America is Worth Saving reads like the definitive burlesque of Upton Sinclair. Like Trumbo, Dreiser is just a good guy trying to revive the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Last fall, during the Presidential campaign, he announced his support of Earl Browder and the Communist Party platform...