[robowombat]

This mentions Dalton Trumbo who was and if you actually look at what such films as ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ and ‘Executive Action’ infer about the United States remained a commie throughout his life. Trumbo made a career out of his being martyred for being an unrepentant Stalin stooge and it costing him in his profession. He should have been banned in any capacity from Hollywood productions. Take a careful look at the 1942 film ‘Saboteur’ and not how relentlessly Trumbo’s script pushes the evil meme of class warfare depicting all wealthy persons as Nazi agents or sympathizers. Trumbo and his enablers were traitors pure and simple .

[CondorFlight]

“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.” (Marx)

Changed slightly, he should have said, “Give me ten cameras on a movie lot, and I will conquer the world.”

All the more reason, then, for those who want to win the culture wars, to get involved with making their own movies
(which is technologically much easier today than ever before).

[Argus]

Trumbo didn’t write SABOTEUR.

[greene66]

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.

[CatherineofAragon]

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.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Yes Trumbo was a lefty till the end and probably defended Alger Hiss. Actually I thought “Executive Action” a fairly interesting movie and saw it again recently.

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.