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The brave one 1956 download2/17/2023 Woody Strode and Kirk Douglas in Spartacus “They were all good.” Here are FilmInk’s picks for Dalton Trumbo’s Top Five Scripts… “You know, I did a lot of movies with Dalton,” Kirk Douglas told USA Today in 2015. A longtime leftist, Dalton Trumbo would become the most famous of the blacklisted film professionals known as The Hollywood 10, officially shut out of the industry until Kirk Douglas broke The Black List by inviting him to pen 1960’s Spartacus. With America gripped by anti-communist fervour in the forties and fifties, the movie industry was seen as a hotbed of leftist dissent, and many found themselves out in the cold as a result of their ideologies. “Above all, perhaps, his courage, his fearlessness, a clear sense of passion in what he believed was the right way, the principled way, for a man to live.” All of that is present in his Hollywood screenwriting, much of which he did under pseudonyms or through the use of “fronts” when he found himself on the now notorious Black List. “His wit, certainly, but also his eloquence, his rage, and his bawdy sense of humour,” Peter Askin – the director of the 2007 documentary, Trumbo – replied when asked what he liked most about Dalton Trumbo.
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