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Brilliant blacklist biopic
Trumbo is an outstanding film on a survivor of the Hollywood witch-hunts, says ALAN FRANK
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Trumbo (15)
Directed by Jay Roach
5/5
IN THE 1940s writer Dalton Trumbo, whose credits included landmark films like the Oscar-nominated classic Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, signed a deal with MGM making him the highest-paid screenwriter in the world.
But in 1947 Trumbo, a member of the Communist Party since 1943 and a political activist who supported trade unions, the fight for equal pay and civil rights, fell victim to McCarthyism.
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