Sentences with phrase «blacklisted writer»

With a screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, Spartacus tells the story of a slave trained to kill in the arena who leads other slaves in rebellion.

The screenplay's by Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted writer who also wrote Roman Holiday and Spartacus.

Directed by William Wyler and co-written by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (I Married A Witch, Spartacus).

Kramer initially derided Foreman's House Un-American Activities Committee testimony as unhelpful, but then irked many by commissioning another blacklisted writer, Nedrick Young, for a pair of projects.

The series comes from Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television, and though the current incarnation comes from Spielberg's Schindler's List writer Steven Zaillian, the idea is based on a 50 - year - old script written by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.

This socially conscious Western represents a major comeback for blacklisted writer - director Polonsky, who identifies with the film's message and gets strong performances from Redford as the sheriff and Robert Blake as the hunted man.

John Goodman and Stephen Root are hilarious as cut - rate film producers who hire the blacklisted writers (under assumed names) for a song.

Blacklisted writers Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler produced the script based on a story by Robert Thoeren and Hans Wilhelm.

Not exact matches

I am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer.

I am reasonably certain about this claim because I knew the Hollywood writers in the Communist party and several of those blacklisted, and I was by far the youngest.

A prime example of how Hollywood reflected the changing political climate: When Lewis Milestone's film was made, the Soviet Union was an ally but after WWII some of its makers removed their name, while others like writer Lilian Hellman were blacklisted.

After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer / director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here.

When 19 - year - old aspirant drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) goes to the movies with his Pennington High School writer / teacher father (Paul Reiser) there's Rififi on the hoarding, the 1955 French noir film directed by blacklisted émigré filmmaker Jules Dassin.

Because the writer knew that even if this very powerful man never gave her a job in any of his films, even if he blacklisted her from other films, she could make her own work on her own terms and thus keep a roof over her head.»

Final Verdict: The writers know exactly what they are doing here, making the Blacklist one of the more exciting shows this Fall.

Amid the Red Scare paranoia of «50s America, top Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was among ten writers blacklisted and imprisoned for their communist views, and while fighting for his creative freedom secretly penned some of the era's most enduring and Oscar - winning hits.

The first look at Bleecker Street's TRUMBO, starring Bryan Cranston as blacklisted Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo is here and it's a fun and flashy trailer.

Writers Patrick Massett and John Zinman, who've written and produced TV series ranging from Friday Night Lights to The Blacklist, based their screenplay on real - life events which you can read about HERE — but don't do so before you see the picture.

He was finally released after languishing almost a year behind bars, but stilll found himself blacklisted and booted from the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

Trumbo's difficulties in surviving as a writer under the blacklist, and his efforts to break it, are the movie's heart.

Matt's original hourlong drama pilot STILL was included in the Blacklist's TV Writers Staffing Book and secured him a spot in the inaugural Sundance Episodic Story Lab, where he was mentored by showrunners like Charles «Chic» Eglee (DEXTER), Elwood Reid (THE BRIDGE), and Noah Hawley (FARGO).

Bryan Cranston stars as Blacklisted and beleaguered screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, but this tale of two trailers suggest slightly different Trumbos: the first trailer portrays the titular writer as a rich man with radical ideas who is then broken down by accusations of being a Communist before he finds screenwriting success again; the new trailer starts off with the hard - luck story of Trumbo before playing up the fight against Congress and the war against censorship.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

Whitlock is kidnapped by a group of communist writers (not yet blacklisted) who are striking out against a capitalistic studio that doesn't share the rewards with the creative folks.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall appear at a protest against the blacklisting of Hollywood writers and actors.

Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers» Association (2002), Gold Dagger Award for Blacklist by the Crime Writers» Association (2004), Anthony award Lifetime Achievement award (2011) and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America (2011).

Writers, who in the past were afraid to speak out against publishing nonsense like this because they didn't want to be blacklisted, are now actively pointing out how asinine publishers, and authors, are acting.

So that those who might work for a US government agency can be negatively dealt with, like Hollywood writers were blacklisted back in the day of McCarthyism?