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Directed by DAVID MILLER Screenplay by DALTON TRUMBO...
...happens, in Executive Action, like a low-grade, seedy shoot-'em-up. Dalton Trumbo's script is based on a story written in part by Mark Lane, the lawyer and assassination-conspiracy buff. Real names of persons and places are used except where they would be most crucial. The conspirators-Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer and John Anderson among them-are assigned fictional names, but only the vaguest identides. Ryan, the force behind the plot, is wealthy; Lancaster apparently is a maverick intelligence operative; Geer, an elderly man who has oil interests. Such sketchiness satisfies the requirements...
Among the latter, the best-known group was the Hollywood Ten, an oddly assorted collection of men who went to jail for refusing to testify about their political beliefs. They included Dalton Trumbo (Kitty Foyle), one of the highest-paid screenwriters in town, and Ring Lardner Jr. (Forever Amber), one of the most talented. The rest were largely fringe figures, creators of Charlie Chan and Boston Blackie epics, who as writers and directors probably could never have earned anything like the fame they won collectively in political martyrdom...
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...