Trumbo
2009
DVD
Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- MPAA rating: PG-13; for a sex-related commentary.
- CHVR: Not rated.
Notes:
- Documentary.
- Based on the play by Christopher Trumbo.
- Originally released in 2007.
- Special features: Paul Giamatti reads Trumbo's letter to Ring Lardner, Jr. (June 1953) ; Danny Glover reads Trumbo's letter to Arthur, film associate (December 1947) ; Photo gallery.
- Director of photography, Frank Prinzi ; editor, Kurt Engfehr ; music by, Robert Miller.
- Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, Donald Sutherland.
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
- English dialogue with optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Contents:
- Acceptance speech
- Communism
- Subpoenaed
- Black-listed
- Catching up
- Prisoner #7551
- My dear son
- Front
- Ridicule
- And the winner is
- End of adversity.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 10239
Control Number: 876822
UPC: 876964002394
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2009.Subjects:
- Blacklisting of authors -- United States -- Biography.
- Guiones cinematográficos.
- Motion picture authorship -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
- Motion picture plays.
- Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976 -- Anonyms and pseudonyms.
- Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976 -- Anónimos y seudónimos.
- Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Allen, Joan, 1956-
- Askin, Peter, 1940-
- Battersby, William, 1958-
- Dennehy, Brian.
- Douglas, Michael, 1944-
- Filbert Steps Productions (Firm)
- Giamatti, Paul.
- Klingenstein, Alan.
- Lane, Nathan, 1956-
- Lucas, Josh.
- Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Miller, Robert.
- Neeson, Liam.
- Red Envelope Entertainment (Firm)
- Reno Productions (Firm)
- Safehouse Pictures.
- Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm)
- Strathairn, David.
- Sutherland, Donald, 1935-2024
- Trumbo, Christopher.
- Tunnell, Tory.
- Viola, David.