Whitewash: 'Trumbo' Blacklist

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There's no topic dearer to Tinseltown's heart than the Hollywood 10. In this fable, a group of writers (and one director) faced persecution at the hands of the United States government for their benign political views. It was a dark time for America; an abdication of the freedoms for which prior generations fought and died.

That's the story "Trumbo" would have you believe. The documentary, the tale of Dalton Trumbo - the most famous of the writers cited for contempt of Congress during the House Committee on Un-American Activities - is an adaptation of the play by his son, Christopher.

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Whitewash: 'Trumbo' Blacklist

As an artistic work, "Trumbo" is a modest success, telling the story of a man that few people knew as anything other than the answer to a trivi...

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