Dalton Trumbo

Clare felt like he was being lazy just directing a film and not being more hands-on.

There were many different writers who were assigned to the script, which included Sturgis and Dalton Trumbo, but they clashed constantly and the script was eventually finished and credited to Robert Pirosh and Mark Connelly, though Clare did assist as well.

Now at this point, Frederick March was one of the top actors in Hollywood.

He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1932 for his version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

If you want to see really good adaptations of what this did to some people working, you know, writers, thinkers, teachers, anybody.

You know, there's a brilliant film called Trumbo.

I don't know if you've seen it, about Dalton Trumbo, who was a screenwriter for Hollywood.

I mean, an extraordinary screenwriter.

I think he did...

Even the biggest metal bands on earth in the 80s had moments when they got political.

Metallica's One, from their 1988 album And Justice For All, is inspired by Dalton Trumbo's anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun.

It's about a soldier who survives a battlefield blast but is left trapped inside his own body.

Yet another song about the devastating effects of what war does to the people sent to fight them on the front lines.

So, uh, you know, like I said, television shows tend to, uh, there are certain television shows, especially sitcoms that tend to, uh, be driven by the Halloween spirit, you know, because everyone's always done a Christmas special.

Uh, people really started track that and no other, no other, uh, franchise uh more than the modern family uh they really celebrated this claire dumphy is totally into you know halloween so they always have a some of the best episodes ever are their halloween episodes uh but i gotta say as far as costumes go it goes to manny delgado for dressing up like Dalton Trumbo.

He has a bathtub and he goes around and no one knows who he is.

It's so great because he goes to a teenage high school party and everyone's like, you're a guy in a tub.

What does that mean? And finally he finds a girl that recognizes Dalton who he's supposed to be and you know uh finds that that's a sign of love for him you know on that but it's it's such a great one the costume's great he's actually in the tub uh so that's my number four from my family manny delgado

and and who is dalton trumbo for the you know illiterate among us like counting myself

A writer? A screenwriter, yes.

A screenwriter, yeah.

One, a standout track from Injustice for All, confronts the consequences of war with unflinching realism.

Inspired by Dalton Trumbo's novel Johnny Got His Gun, the song tells the story of Joe Bonham, a soldier catastrophically wounded in battle.

Trapped inside his own body, Joe can no longer see, hear or move beyond the tapping of his head.

S.O.S.

Kirk, Kirk Douglas.

And you remember also Kirk Douglas famously hired Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay and, and to basically get him out of the blacklist.

And Kubrick kind of disowned Spartacus, which is too bad because I think it is one of the best of that era of the sword and sandal epic.

Well, we have one more feature to just talk about real quick.

Yet the film also excels in its quieter moments, such as the tender relationship between Spartacus and Varinia, played by Gene Simmons, a house slave who becomes his love interest.

The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and based on Howard Farr's novel, weaves themes of freedom, sacrifice and the human spirit.

Trumbo, who was blacklisted at the time, used the film to explore ideas of revolution and resistance, drawing parallels to contemporary civil rights struggles.

The film's intellectual depth is matched by its emotional resonance as Spartacus' journey from slave to leader is both inspiring and tragic.

Therefore, it is the unanimous opinion of this subcommittee that John Howard Lawson is in contempt of Congress.

Now, why would Mr. Lawson refuse to answer the question? A hint to the answer would be given when the committee questioned famed screenwriter and Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo.

I have some other questions, Mr. Trumbo, I'd like to ask you.

Are you now, have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? Mr.