Posted on 05/13/2015 6:46:25 PM PDT by TigerTown
Hard-core Communists in Hollywood, and by that I mean those with party cards and whose allegiance was to Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union, not the United States, made a major effort to take over the movie industry and nearly succeeded. The much-maligned House Un-American Activities Committee, as even liberal Hollywood historians Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund acknowledge, uncovered over 200 party members in Hollywood. My dad, Morrie Ryskind, one of the few outspoken anti-Communist screenwriters in Hollywood, said the number was closer to 300. They were part of a broad conspiracy of subversives who had penetrated America’s most critical institutions, including our intelligence agencies, the State Department and even the White House.
Hollywood continues to celebrate the most ardent Stalinists as champions of our civil liberties. It will do so again this year by releasing a film featuring Bryan Cranston, the star of Breaking Bad, that honors Dalton Trumbo, a major Stalinist screenwriter, as a great defender of our Constitution. It also promises to go after important anti-Communists, like labor leader Roy Brewer and actor John Wayne.
By 1944, the American Communists, who viewed the murderous Joseph Stalin as their political leader, were deeply imbedded in the Hollywood guilds and unions, and even appeared to control movie content.
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Even worse was that John Howard Lawson guy, who wrote films like “Success at Any Price” (1934), which were pretty blatantly anti-capitalist. That one was a real gagger, despite having a nice cast of old favorites.
On the other hand, at least there were a few distinctly anti-commie films like “Red Salute” with Barbara Stanwyck from 1935, and “Soak the Rich” (1936), which Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur made (following up “The Scoundrel” at Paramount). I still have a VHS copy of “Red Salute” around here somewhere, recorded from back in the early-to-mid-1980s, when the relatively new “USA Network” actually aired some old movies. Haven’t seen “Soak the Rich” in decades, but it was an interesting oddity.
There was an especially good anti red movie made right after the blacklist. I think it was with Dana Andrews and concerned that terrified Soviet clerk, Igor Gouzenick (sp).
I remember a Dana Andrews film about an advertising agency taken over by Reds, or something like that. Called “The Fearmakers,” I believe. From around 1958. Probably not the film you’re citing, but definately anti-commie.
Ah, yes. I’ve seen it. Many years ago. Sometimes it went by the title “Behind the Iron Curtain,” and other times, just “The Iron Curtain.” 1948. One might have been the official theatrical title, and the other, for tv broadcast, I think.
If you get a chance, read the paperback version of Trumbo’s “Johnny Got His Gun” that was published around 1970 to coincide with the film version. It includes his prefaces from the original edition (1940), a post-ww2 reprint, and the final 1970 one. It’s amazing to read the shifts in how this old liar presents his antiwar book. In sum, his view is that US soldiers who go to war and come back mutilated were fools in 1918, noble in 1945, and back to being fools in 1970.
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Where they failed the liberalism worshipping Christ haters have succeeded in bringing down America anyhow
Marxism or progressivism or cultural transformation or hope and change....whatever our rot may be called has destroyed America as much as any commie loving 1930s Hollywood writer could have ever dreamed of in his most ambitious fantasies
What I have found amazing was that the very people Joe McCarthy warned us about and for a time relentlessly pursued are now the types of people in power.
We’re going to need a purge and a detox when Obama is done.
Bump for tonight’s viewing.
Thanks.
Yeah, don’t know how I got that one wrong. Thanks.
Commies in Hollywood ping
Hollywood traitors supported Hitler and Stalin . . . and now Barack the First. They cannot resist national socialists, soviet socialists, or today’s hip socialist.
All this has in common, a Hollyweird weakness for the most evil expression of the day.
They are like moths to the fire. And a lot of them will up spending eternity in the fire that so mesmerizes them.
McCarthy was right.
Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad” played Trumbo in a 2015 biographical movie. I have no desire to see it, but I’m sure it made him out to be a martyr and a hero.
From the article: “...good conservatives like Fox’s Bill O’ Reilly...”
Uhhhh....
I could never understand how any of these people could support Stalin especially when it came out about all the people he killed during the Purge in the 1930’s.
Also lest we forget that New York Times reporter in Russia back in the 1930’s who saw it all up close and kept writing glowing reports of the marvels of Communism. That would be Walter Duranty who now even the Times won't claim.
Made right at the height of the Communist Influence in Hollywood. It was written by a guy named John Marquand and screenplay by someone named Luther Davis.
I tried too watch this piece of junk one night on TCM and gave up on it. Too Blatantly Communist.
I just saw that movie recently it called “The Iron Curtain”.
He played a Soviet who defected during the war in Canada.
He also did a radio show called “I Was a Communist for the FBI”, I have listened to show on SiriusXM, great show.
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