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...Trumbo is one of the hottest potatoes ever baked in Hollywood. He is hated by many. He is also adulated by some as a political martyr. As moods and attitudes have shifted around him, the man who wrote such memorable films as Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds over Tokyo has been shuttled in and out of the money, in and out of anonymity, in and out of jail...
Atmosphere of Dissent. At 55, the once-flaming Trumbo appears quiet, gentle and humorous. But peering through black-rimmed glasses and speaking through a thickly tufted white mustache, he rarely answers questions except with a speech, and anything will set him off. "I have looked at many American faces," he improvised for an interviewer last week. "I've seen them as flak burst around them 9,000 ft. over Japan and in a slit trench on Okinawa watching the night sky to see where the next bomb would fall. I have seen American faces in a Congregational Church...
James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers, with the air of a man who has used the story before to point his moral. "My Southern grandmother, burning with hateful memories of the Yankee invasion, dissented from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan...
SPARTACUS. Director Stanley Kubrick and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, in adapting the tragedy of the heroic slave to Super-Technirama 70 and the various other disadvantages of a $12 million budget, have managed to achieve that happy contradiction in cinema terms, an intelligent spectacle...
EXODUS. Director Otto Preminger and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo have reduced a fatty mess of prose by Leon Uris to a lean, keen saga that keeps the audience on seat's edge as ten name players and 45,000 extras pseudohistorically re-enact the founding of Israel...