Trumbo (2015) on Netflix
In 1947 Dalton Trumbo is a top screenwriter whose Communist Party membership earns him the hostility of Hedda Hopper and John Wayne. The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas him.
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Dalton Trumbo works on scripts in his bathtub and holds a record three-year contract with MGM. He is a Communist, and Hedda Hopper names him in her column while John Wayne denounces Communists at a Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals meeting. When his young daughter Niki asks about his politics, he answers that he wants a better government. Subpoenaed to Washington with nine other screenwriters, Trumbo defies the House Un-American Activities Committee and refuses to answer its questions directly, and the ten are charged with contempt of Congress. His friend Arlen Hird cannot afford the legal fees, and Trumbo offers to cover them. At Edward G. Robinson's mansion, supporters collect money for a defense fund.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Trumbo (2015)
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- The film's depiction of Edward G. Robinson naming names before the House Un-American Activities Committee was altered from the real 1952 transcript, where Robinson named John Howard Lawson as the supposed commissar; in the film, the composite character Arlen Hird is identified as 'the commissar' instead.
