00:28Dalton Trumbo
00:30Dalton Trumbo wrote the book Johnny Got His Gun
00:32and the screenplays for Roman Holiday and Spartacus.
00:35Dalton Trumbo was a superstar writer.
00:37He was very funny, kind of cantankerous.
00:40It's never over with you people.
00:41Strike after people.
00:43Strike after strike.
00:44Whatever it takes to seek justice.
00:46He was a communist when to be a communist meant you fought for the rights of working people.
00:51It had nothing to do with Russia.
00:53Decent Americans feel that Hollywood is just a haven for overpaid traders.
00:58Hedda Hopper was queen of Hollywood gossip columnists.
01:01If she wanted to bring someone down, she could.
01:04She had 35 million readers.
01:07Extraordinarily anti-communist.
01:09Hedda Hopper and others were determined to convince America that these writers were actually traitors.
01:14Subpoenas have been issued to those we believe have knowledge of the ongoing communist threat in Hollywood.
01:20Congress has no right to investigate what we think or how we make movies.
01:25Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
01:28Trumbo realized the question itself was anti-American.
01:32Are you in contempt of Congress?
01:33Well, I have total contempt of this Congress.
01:35He was blacklisted in 1947.
01:37No studio will ever employ a member of the communist party.
01:41He lost his livelihood.
01:42Trumbo's not allowed to write under his own name.
01:44Nobody in their right mind will hire him except the King Brothers who make schlock.
01:48You're a great writer.
01:49I don't see it.
01:50I'll write you a movie.
01:52And you don't want your name on it.
01:53No, you don't want my name on it.
01:55Especially if you're still up to stuff.
01:57Are you?
01:59Perpetually.
01:59And that was the start.
02:01Dalton Trumbo realized he can give assignments to all his friends.
02:04They need scripts like an army needs toilet paper.
02:07Murder at the circus.
02:09It needs work.
02:10I knew the clown did it.
02:11It's always the clown.
02:12Trumbo realized the whole issue will collapse because of the sheer irony that writers who
02:18are not allowed to write are writing.
02:19Make a wish.
02:20But it took its toll and his family paid a price.
02:24You can't take five minutes.
02:25Nope.
02:26Their relationship was super complicated.
02:27They fought a lot, for sure.
02:29And she would call him out on things.
02:31Go away.
02:33When you hear me working, you don't knock.
02:36So the house is on fire?
02:37You don't want to know?
02:38I work in a bathtub, surrounded by water.
02:42This isn't just happening to you.
02:44We all hurt.
02:45Leo Trumbo had a very strong sense of survival that served her well when she needed to be
02:53strong for her husband and her children.
02:57The Blacklist is alive and well, and so is the black market.
03:00If we get one big movie, we can get all the big movies.
03:04Phone for you.
03:05Well, who is it?
03:07There's a good story in there.
03:09What's the title?
03:10Spartacus.
03:11There's Hopper.
03:12This is an amazing story of redemption and righteousness in the end winning out.
03:16Fire Dalton Trumbo.
03:18I don't think you and me are going to be held.
03:20Trumbo is an important, compelling story told with warmth and wit and humor.
03:25We now work at midnight in thick fog.
03:29Not literally.
03:30This is what attracted me and Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Michael
03:36Stuhlbar, and Louis C.K.
03:37The film is about the freedom to believe what you believe and not be persecuted for it.
03:42I don't think there's anything more important than freedom of speech.
03:44I think everything's flows from there.
03:51I think everything flows from there.
