Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left (San Francisco, 2005: Encounter Books). Pp. 292. $29.95. In August 1940, the actor Franchot Tone explained to the Dies Committee (forerunner of the House Committee on Un-American Activities) that to him as a liberal, the Communist Party of the United States as it operated in Hollywood was “just another political party.” If anything, that view is even more widely and strongly held today, 65 years later, by the artists of the film colony. The understanding in Hollywood is that the Hollywood Communists, including...