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Hollywood on Trial
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Wikipedia article
'Hollywood on Trial' is a 1976 American documentary film directed by David Helpern. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The film chronicles the 1947 hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, with a focus on the Hollywood Ten directors, screenwriters and producers cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted by the movie industry after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party. The documentary is narrated by John Huston and includes archival footage from the hearings and interviews with key participants in the hearings and studio figures affected by those events.
Turner Classic Movies aired the documentary on November 6, 2017, as part of its TCM Spotlight on the Hollywood blacklist.http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=1365242
Cast
* John Huston - Narrator
* Walter Bernstein - Himself
* Alvah Bessie - Himself
* Lester Cole - Himself
* Gary Cooper - Himself (archive footage)
* Henry Daniell - Himself (archive footage)
* Howard Da Silva - Himself
* Edward Dmytryk - Himself
* Will Geer - Himself
* Millard Lampell - Himself
* Ring Lardner Jr. - Himself
* Albert Maltz - Himself
* Ben Margolis - Himself
* Louis B. Mayer - Himself (archive footage)
* Joseph McCarthy - Himself (archive footage)
* Zero Mostel - Himself
* Otto Preminger - Himself
* Ronald Reagan - Himself
* Martin Ritt - Himself
* Dore Schary - Himself
* Gale Sondergaard - Herself
* Leo Townsend - Himself
* Dalton Trumbo - Himself
References
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