Bryan Cranston (left) stars as Dalton Trumbo and Diane Lane (right) stars as Cleo Trumbo in Jay Roach’s TRUMBO, a Bleecker Street release. Photo credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle. © Bleecker Street.
TRUMBO film review
– Film Review By Mark Glass –
Grade: 4 ½ out of 5 stars
Rating: R
Dalton Trumbo was one of Hollywood’s leading screenwriters throughout the 1940s. But shortly after WW II, the country morphed into its Cold War mentality, with Communism denounced as the new existential threat before we’d barely had time to catch our breath from defeating the Nazis. Fear led to demagoguery, with some claiming that Commies among us were now the greatest threat to our way of life. That led to the era of McCarthyism, demonizing all who had ever sympathized with or belonged to any form of socialist entity, or been friends with some who had. One result was the blacklisting of scores of Hollywood writers and others in a frenzied paranoid purge that spread to every private and public sector.
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