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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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(WATER SLOSHING)
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(MAN GROANING)
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What do you want, Rocco?
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What we all want.
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To not die young,
poor or alone.
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Manny...
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These guys, they...
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I don't give them
what they're after,
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they'll kill me.
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Hold it, Rocco.
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We don't fight these guys.
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Sure, maybe you get that...
(CLATTERS)
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Shit. God damn it.
SAM: Cut!
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(BELL RINGS)
(LAUGHS)
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MAN: Props!
Cut.
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EDWARD: Sorry, everyone.
(TRUMBO COUGHS)
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We're going again, Eddie.
I don't know what happened.
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MAN: Sorry, Sam.
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Of course, the one day
the author is among us.
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Among us.
Sure as hell ain't one of us.
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EDWARD: What's my
brilliant line, Trumbo?
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Oh! I've got it right here.
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"Hold it, Rocco. Now if...
If we don't fight these guys,
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"sure, maybe you get that
long, happy life we all want."
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So, what do you got me
fighting for then?
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Well, peace on Earth.
Good will toward men.
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Well, you can't do that.
This is America.
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All right.
How about sex and money?
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There you go.
Two things we all love.
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Well...
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One of your little sermons
on citizenship.
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(TRUMBO LAUGHS)
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SAM: All right, going again.
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(BAND PLAYING JAZZ)
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EDWARD: Mayer lined up
the A Team.
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Sam Wood to shoot,
Dalton Trumbo for rewrites.
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SAM: I had no crew,
I couldn't work.
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EDWARD: So, good,
fingers crossed
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You wouldn't work.
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God forbid you cross a picket
line for set builders.
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What the hell do set builders
have to do with writing?
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What writers write,
builders build.
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What they build, you shoot.
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Now, you make all the money
you possibly can.
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So do I. Why shouldn't they?
And why can't we help them?
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Listen to you,
the swimming pool Soviet.
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Oh, for God's sakes, you won!
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Sam, the strike is over.
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And you just might
try being a gracious winner!
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You know, it's never over
with you people!
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Strike after strike
after strike!
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"You people"?
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Whatever it takes
to seek justice!
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Hey, you know what?
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TRUMBO: We've all...
SAM: Laugh it up.
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SAM: Why don't we all
take six months off?
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TRUMBO: Oh, come on, Sam!
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I'm gonna go on strike...
Good for you.
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...against people
who go on strike.
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Sam, Sam...
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And I won't cross
your picket line either.
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SAM: Oh, give me that, Trumbo!
You're just...
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EDWARD: Sam! Sam!
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SAM: You know what?
You know what?
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I've spent a hell
of a long time... What?
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You're not helping... Eddie...
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Sam, Sam.
We gotta talk about those scenes tomorrow.
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Disaster.
Who the hell wrote that crap?
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But, uh, first...
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Whoa, whoa!
May I have this dance?
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SAM: Eddie...
You're spilling my drink.
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Having fun?
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(SIGHS)
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Eternally.
(CHUCKLES)
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Miss Hopper.
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ANNOUNCER:
Dateline, Hollywood.
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The offices of top columnist
Hedda Hopper.
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Greetings
from our film capital,
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where all is sun and fun.
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Or is it?
You see the famous faces here?
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Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart,
his dishy bride Lauren Bacall.
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All of whom
have declared solidarity
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with film crews
picketing for higher wages
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in walkouts that quickly
turned violent.
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Because these strikes were,
in fact,
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the work
of dangerous radicals.
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Here, we see
actor Edward G. Robinson,
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star of Double Indemnity.
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And this is writer
Dalton Trumbo,
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who is, like many of those
strikers and their supporters,
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a registered communist.
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Who exactly
is behind these walkouts?
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You actually
create something...
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HEDDA: And why?
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TRUMBO: ...and they reap
all the profits.
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Now, is that fair?
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CROWD: No!
No!
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HEDDA: Our elected leaders
will find out.
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Congressman J. Parnell Thomas
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and his House Un-American
Activities Committee.
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Communism is not some
faraway threat.
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Its most dangerous agents
are here,
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controlling the airwaves
and movie screens.
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Taking over its employees
and their unions.
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They need to be identified
as the enemies they are.
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NARRATOR:
Communists, their goal:
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world domination.
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The frontline
of a new kind of war.
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A cold war.
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A conspiracy to corrupt
democratic values
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and bring about
the overthrow of this nation.
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(CHUCKLES)
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CLEO: Mitzi fell asleep.
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MAN: Hey!
That you in the news reel?
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(SIGHS) Yes, it was.
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(GASPS)
(CROWD EXCLAIMS)
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Traitor.
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Oh, my God! Honey.
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TRUMBO: No, I'm all right,
I'm all right. No harm done.
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CLEO: Are you sure? Oh.
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Come on. Let's go.
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Dad?
Mmm.
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Are you a communist?
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I am.
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Is that against the law?
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It is not.
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The lady with the big hat said
you were a dangerous radical.
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Are you?
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Radical? Maybe.
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Dangerous.
Only to men who fling Cokes.
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I love our country.
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And it's a good government.
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But anything good could be
better, don't you think?
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Is Mom a communist?
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No.
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Am I?
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Well, why don't we give you
the official test?
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Mom makes
your favorite lunch.
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Ham and cheese.
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Ham and cheese.
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And at school,
you see someone with no lunch at all.
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What do you do?
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Share.
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Share?
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Well, you don't tell them
to just go get a job?
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No.
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Oh. You offer them a loan at 6%.
Oh, that's very clever.
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Dad.
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Ah, then you just ignore them.
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No.
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Well, well.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
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You little commie.
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Trumbo, as usual,
you only make sense to you.
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Now, let them call you
a communist, me a Democrat.
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They're both legitimate parties.
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Yours is just meaner
and duller,
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but there's nothing illegal
about any of it.
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Yet...
EDWARD: Hunter.
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Tell your friend to dial down
the paranoia and have a drink.
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I don't think
he's being paranoid enough.
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(MEN CHUCKLES)
(SIGHS) Not you too.
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You're out of ice.
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Now, I have taken the liberty
of drawing up a pamphlet.
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The subject: Congress unaware
of a little thing
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called the First Amendment.
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They're aware of it.
They just don't give a shit.
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All they care about is this
nice new war of theirs.
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These guys love war
and this is a great one,
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'cause it's vague
and it's scary
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and it's expensive.
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Anybody for it is a hero
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and anybody against it
is a traitor.
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IAN: Exactly, thank you.
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Arlen, not near the paintings.
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And if you think this is about the movies,
you're an idiot.
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Which is why
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I'm going to have
a little chat with the other side.
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You don't mean the Alliance,
do you?
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I do.
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Are you out of your mind?
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TRUMBO: Eddie,
they're all actors
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and writers and directors,
just like us.
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They're Nazis.
They're just too cheap to buy the uniforms.
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They invited Congress out here.
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And are they all Sam Woods
and Hedda Hoppers?
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Please, let's not demonize
people we don't really know.
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ARLEN: I say we go for it.
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And you know who you're gonna
be talking to there, don't you?
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. John Wayne.
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I wanna say one thing
about a place I love.
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No, not Hollywood.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
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I like Hollywood,
but I love America.
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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WAYNE: And when we talk
about America,
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I'm talking about freedom.
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The kind of freedom we just
fought a world war to save.
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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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You want to be a communist?
Go be a communist.
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But some friends of mine
in Washington
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think you got some questions
to answer.
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I never knew
he was this good.
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WAYNE: You still
want to be a commie...
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'Cause he's not acting. That's him.
WAYNE:...go be one in Russia.
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But off you go and enjoy
the Bolshoi Ballet.
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(ALL LAUGH)
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Excuse me, sir,
would you like to read
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about the First Amendment?
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Sir, a little education.
You know your rights?
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Pamphlet
on the First Amendment.
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ARLEN: A little light reading.
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TRUMBO: Travels well.
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Well, thank you, Sam.
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Do svidanya.
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ARLEN: It costs money
to print those.
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TRUMBO:
How'd you like to learn
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about the First Amendment?
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This is a nightmare.
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HEDDA: Dalton.
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Oh, Hedda.
Good evening to you.
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Eddie, darling!
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Hedda.
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New hat.
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Ah, daily, darling, daily.
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Been to the movies lately,
Dalton?
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Duke.
Now, wasn't he magnificent?
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Just saying what needs saying.
Hi, Eddie.
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Duke.
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I hear you and your pals
got a pamphlet.
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Any takers?
Not yet.
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Uh, would you like one, sir?
We're communists.
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He's a writer.
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You won't get any takers.
Not here, anyway.
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TRUMBO: Oh, why is that?
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All it says is that
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Congress has no right
to investigate
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how we vote or where we pray,
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what we think,
say or how we make movies.
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Hello, I'm Dalton Trumbo.
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Congress has the right
to go after anything
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they think is a threat.
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Well, that's where
we disagree and that's the point.
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We both have the right
to be wrong.
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You wanna talk about rights,
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first tell me whose side
you're on.
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Russia's no friend,
not anymore.
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You'd better wake up.
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'Cause it's a new day.
A new day!
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TRUMBO: And?
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And maybe it's not
for your kind.
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My kind? What kind is that?
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The kind that has no idea
why we just won a war.
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It's curious,
that's the second time
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you mentioned that.
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See, I was a war correspondent
in Okinawa.
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Hedda's son was stationed
in the Philippines.
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Eddie was in Europe with
the Office of War Information.
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Where did you serve again?
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You trying to say something?
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No, Duke, he wasn't.
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Stay out of it, Eddie.
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If you're going to talk
about World War II
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as if you personally won it,
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let's be clear
where you were stationed.
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On a film set,
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shooting blanks,
wearing makeup.
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And if you're going to hit me,
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I would like to take off
my glasses.
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(CAMERAS CLICKING)
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Duke, come on.
Let's get out of here.
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Thank you, Dalton. My next
column just wrote itself.
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It's a good thing you didn't
want to demonize anybody
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or else that
could have been awkward.
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EDWARD: Manny wouldn't say
"amorous."
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Hang on one second.
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Paul, two packs, please.
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Here you are.
Thank you.
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Here you go.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER
IN DISTANCE)
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Good God, she's everywhere.
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Your next deal's gonna
make you
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the highest-paid writer
in Hollywood.
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Which will make you
the highest-paid writer in the world.
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You earned it.
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You don't just write
happy endings,
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you actually believe them.
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That's what people pay to see.
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That's why you belong here
at MGM. Right, L.B.?
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I hate to make the wooing
too easy for you,
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but where do I sign?
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MAYER: Just one thing.
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If you're gonna work for me,
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I never, ever want to see
anything like this again.
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You won't. I promise.
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Good.
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Just stop reading
Hedda Hopper.
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(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
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So, what did L.B. say then?
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BUDDY: Jesus, don't.
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I haven't eaten since.
My job's not hard enough?
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Your job is not hard at all.
(BUDDY GROANS)
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You think getting Mayer
to sign you
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after those headlines
was easy?
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You have a record-breaking
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three-year contract
to make shit up.
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You're welcome.
307
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Oh, honey, not now.
(LAUGHS)
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Please, Mom?
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NIKI: She really can.
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Ask her!
TRUMBO: Can what?
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Cleo, is this true?
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Watch this.
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(ALL LAUGH)
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Trumbo...
CHRIS: Come on.
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Of course,
you realize this means war.
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TRUMBO: Behold!
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I had a very unusual mother.
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Translation: stage mother.
(ALL LAUGH)
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(ALL EXCLAIM)
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The misspent youth
of a child acrobat.
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00:15:53,579 --> 00:15:55,831
My God, how long were you
in show business?
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Till I was 15, but it was more
show forced-labor.
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(ALL CHEERING)
324
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Bravo!
EDWARD: Brilliant!
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(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
326
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Mr. Dalton Trumbo?
327
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Yes?
328
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I'll see you in Washington.
329
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Enjoy your picnic.
330
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Let's go, boys.
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MAN: Yes, Mr. Stripling, sir.
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(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
(ENGINE STARTS)
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THOMAS: Nineteen subpoenas
have been issued
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to those we believe
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00:16:38,457 --> 00:16:42,044
have knowledge of the ongoing
communist threat in Hollywood.
336
00:16:42,127 --> 00:16:43,504
REPORTER:
What kind of threat is that?
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A conspiracy to corrupt
democratic values
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and bring about
the overthrow of this nation.
339
00:16:48,592 --> 00:16:50,761
Using movies?
(ALL LAUGH)
340
00:16:50,886 --> 00:16:52,471
Any movie in particular or...
341
00:16:52,596 --> 00:16:55,391
Movies are the most powerful
influence ever created.
342
00:16:55,808 --> 00:16:59,311
And they are infested
with hidden traitors.
343
00:17:00,270 --> 00:17:01,355
NARRATOR:
The House Un-American
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Activities Committee
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has been formed to investigate
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alleged communists
working in Hollywood.
347
00:17:07,152 --> 00:17:08,862
The newsreel cameras
and an army
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00:17:08,946 --> 00:17:10,447
of newspapermen are on hand.
349
00:17:12,032 --> 00:17:13,701
Mr. Reagan,
has it been reported to you
350
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that certain members
of the Screen Actors Guild
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00:17:15,619 --> 00:17:16,704
are communists?
352
00:17:16,787 --> 00:17:18,187
REAGAN: There has been
a small group
353
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more or less
following the tactics
354
00:17:20,249 --> 00:17:24,044
that we, uh, associate
with the Communist Party.
355
00:17:24,128 --> 00:17:27,673
And would you refer to them
as a disrupting influence?
356
00:17:28,215 --> 00:17:30,217
I would say that, at times,
they have attempted
357
00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:31,719
to be a disruptive influence.
358
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STRIPLING: Do you believe that
the motion picture industry
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is doing everything it can
to rid itself
360
00:17:36,140 --> 00:17:38,600
of subversive
un-American influences?
361
00:17:38,809 --> 00:17:40,936
No. The communists
are everywhere.
362
00:17:41,019 --> 00:17:43,480
They report directly
to Moscow.
363
00:17:43,814 --> 00:17:45,357
On numerous occasions,
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00:17:45,482 --> 00:17:47,818
communist agitators
have tried hard
365
00:17:48,068 --> 00:17:49,486
to steer us
into the red river.
366
00:17:49,570 --> 00:17:50,612
(ALL LAUGH)
367
00:17:50,696 --> 00:17:52,698
We had a little too much
weight for that.
368
00:17:54,032 --> 00:17:55,659
Will you name a few
of these agitators?
369
00:17:57,161 --> 00:18:00,289
Well, Irving Pichel,
370
00:18:00,372 --> 00:18:03,208
Edward Dmytryk, Frank Tuttle.
371
00:18:03,667 --> 00:18:04,710
If I had my way about it,
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00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:06,879
they'd all be sent back
to Russia
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00:18:07,004 --> 00:18:09,465
or some other unpleasant place.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)
374
00:18:10,257 --> 00:18:13,510
TRUMBO: We get our chance
to testify in three days.
375
00:18:13,594 --> 00:18:17,181
And what we're about to do
won't make us too popular.
376
00:18:17,264 --> 00:18:19,558
Okay, so we get slandered
and then what?
377
00:18:19,683 --> 00:18:23,437
You answer every question
they ask in your own way.
378
00:18:24,271 --> 00:18:25,731
So, don't tell them shit.
379
00:18:25,856 --> 00:18:27,191
Beautifully put.
380
00:18:27,274 --> 00:18:28,484
Well, you know
what they call that?
381
00:18:28,567 --> 00:18:29,693
Yes.
382
00:18:31,028 --> 00:18:32,780
In all likelihood,
we'll be cited
383
00:18:32,863 --> 00:18:34,406
for contempt of Congress.
384
00:18:34,531 --> 00:18:36,533
There will be a trial.
385
00:18:36,617 --> 00:18:38,118
ARLEN: What am I missing here?
386
00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:39,620
All I'm hearing is jail.
387
00:18:39,703 --> 00:18:40,788
TRUMBO: Not necessarily.
388
00:18:40,871 --> 00:18:45,125
In a lower court, yes,
we'll most likely lose.
389
00:18:45,209 --> 00:18:47,127
But on appeal...
KENNY: It'll work.
390
00:18:47,211 --> 00:18:50,297
The Supreme Court
is a five-to-four liberal majority.
391
00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:52,216
They think this committee
is unconstitutional.
392
00:18:52,299 --> 00:18:53,383
They want it killed.
393
00:18:53,967 --> 00:18:55,469
Sounds great.
394
00:18:56,386 --> 00:18:57,387
I'm out.
395
00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:00,641
Niki.
396
00:19:04,895 --> 00:19:06,480
Look, I can't afford
this stuff
397
00:19:06,563 --> 00:19:07,856
you guys are talking about.
398
00:19:07,940 --> 00:19:09,650
The Supreme Court
and legal fees...
399
00:19:10,234 --> 00:19:12,277
You know,
Dorothy's not gonna...
400
00:19:12,402 --> 00:19:14,696
I mean, things already
aren't great, but you know...
401
00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:16,532
If I dump all my savings
into that,
402
00:19:16,615 --> 00:19:18,659
she's gone with the kids.
403
00:19:18,742 --> 00:19:20,077
I'll cover you.
404
00:19:20,994 --> 00:19:24,289
Expenses, travel,
legal fees, everything.
405
00:19:26,416 --> 00:19:27,668
You don't even like me.
406
00:19:28,919 --> 00:19:31,922
I like you fine.
You don't like me.
407
00:19:38,637 --> 00:19:40,806
No, you know what it is?
I don't trust you.
408
00:19:40,931 --> 00:19:43,308
Well, I'd say go on,
but I'm afraid you will.
409
00:19:43,433 --> 00:19:45,227
Look, I know what I am. Okay?
410
00:19:45,310 --> 00:19:46,311
I want this whole country
411
00:19:46,436 --> 00:19:47,521
to be different,
top to bottom.
412
00:19:47,604 --> 00:19:50,691
If I get what I want,
nobody gets their own lake.
413
00:19:50,774 --> 00:19:52,894
Well, that would be a very
dull life, don't you think?
414
00:19:52,943 --> 00:19:53,943
Yeah, for you.
415
00:19:53,986 --> 00:19:55,612
Not for the guys
who built this.
416
00:19:56,154 --> 00:19:58,574
If I'm wrong, tell me,
but ever since I've known you,
417
00:19:58,657 --> 00:20:00,576
you talk like a radical.
418
00:20:00,659 --> 00:20:02,661
But you live like a rich guy.
419
00:20:04,204 --> 00:20:05,205
That is true.
420
00:20:05,956 --> 00:20:06,915
Well, I don't know
that you're...
421
00:20:06,999 --> 00:20:08,792
I don't think you're willing
to lose all of this
422
00:20:08,876 --> 00:20:10,294
just to do the right thing.
423
00:20:11,628 --> 00:20:12,796
(SCOFFS)
424
00:20:13,505 --> 00:20:15,007
Well, I despise martyrdom
425
00:20:15,132 --> 00:20:17,092
and I won't fight
for a lost cause.
426
00:20:17,175 --> 00:20:18,302
So you're right.
427
00:20:18,385 --> 00:20:20,637
I'm not willing to lose
it all. Certainly not them.
428
00:20:22,514 --> 00:20:24,850
But I am willing
to risk it all.
429
00:20:24,975 --> 00:20:27,686
That's where the radical
and the rich guy
430
00:20:27,811 --> 00:20:28,896
make a perfect combination.
431
00:20:28,979 --> 00:20:32,733
The radical may fight with
the purity of Jesus.
432
00:20:33,483 --> 00:20:35,861
But the rich guy wins with
the cunning of Satan.
433
00:20:37,404 --> 00:20:38,780
Oh, shit.
434
00:20:38,906 --> 00:20:40,240
What?
435
00:20:40,324 --> 00:20:44,369
Just please shut up. Please.
436
00:20:44,494 --> 00:20:46,663
I'll do whatever you want.
437
00:20:46,747 --> 00:20:49,333
Just please don't say shit
like that anymore.
438
00:20:50,834 --> 00:20:52,085
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
439
00:20:54,421 --> 00:20:56,423
I can't guarantee that.
440
00:20:57,215 --> 00:20:58,300
NARRATOR: In Washington,
441
00:20:58,383 --> 00:21:00,427
10 of the original
19 subpoenaed
442
00:21:00,510 --> 00:21:01,678
began their testimony
443
00:21:01,762 --> 00:21:04,556
before the House Un-American
Activities Committee.
444
00:21:04,681 --> 00:21:06,808
THOMAS: Mr. Trumbo,
raise your right hand.
445
00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:07,935
Do you solemnly swear
446
00:21:08,018 --> 00:21:09,061
the testimony
you are about to give
447
00:21:09,186 --> 00:21:10,145
is the truth, the whole truth,
448
00:21:10,228 --> 00:21:11,708
nothing but the truth
so help you God?
449
00:21:12,022 --> 00:21:13,022
I do.
450
00:21:13,065 --> 00:21:14,441
THOMAS: Sit down, please.
451
00:21:14,524 --> 00:21:16,818
Mr. Trumbo,
now I shall ask you
452
00:21:16,902 --> 00:21:19,279
a series of various questions
453
00:21:19,363 --> 00:21:21,243
all of which can be answered
with a yes or a no.
454
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,370
Well, I shall answer
yes or no if I please to answer.
455
00:21:26,453 --> 00:21:29,122
I shall answer
in my own words.
456
00:21:29,206 --> 00:21:31,708
Many questions
can be answered yes or no
457
00:21:31,792 --> 00:21:34,169
only by a moron or a slave.
458
00:21:34,252 --> 00:21:35,796
THOMAS: That's enough!
(GAVEL POUNDING)
459
00:21:35,879 --> 00:21:37,547
Are you refusing
to answer the question?
460
00:21:37,631 --> 00:21:39,424
Mr. Chairman,
I will refuse to answer
461
00:21:39,549 --> 00:21:40,759
none of your questions.
462
00:21:40,884 --> 00:21:43,261
Are you now
or have you ever been
463
00:21:43,387 --> 00:21:44,888
a member
of the Communist Party?
464
00:21:44,972 --> 00:21:46,890
May I introduce to evidence...
465
00:21:46,974 --> 00:21:48,141
THOMAS: No. No!
You are out of order!
466
00:21:48,225 --> 00:21:50,305
...my work, my screenplays...
No, no, no, no, no, no.
467
00:21:50,394 --> 00:21:52,729
TRUMBO: ...by which you are
making this determination?
468
00:21:52,813 --> 00:21:54,272
THOMAS: No, the chair
will rule.
469
00:21:54,398 --> 00:21:56,066
It's critical to...
No, just a minute.
470
00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:57,651
Your screenplays are too long.
471
00:21:57,734 --> 00:21:59,569
I've heard that before.
(ALL LAUGH)
472
00:21:59,653 --> 00:22:01,321
Are you now
or have you ever been
473
00:22:01,405 --> 00:22:03,115
a member
of the Communist Party?
474
00:22:03,907 --> 00:22:06,284
Am I accused of a crime?
475
00:22:06,410 --> 00:22:07,536
You're not asking
the questions.
476
00:22:07,619 --> 00:22:10,330
If so, I believe I have
the right to be confronted
477
00:22:10,414 --> 00:22:13,583
with any evidence
that supports this question.
478
00:22:13,667 --> 00:22:14,793
Are you refusing
to answer the...
479
00:22:14,918 --> 00:22:16,420
I should very much like
to see what you have.
480
00:22:16,503 --> 00:22:19,214
Oh, you would?
You will see very soon!
481
00:22:19,297 --> 00:22:20,590
TRUMBO: Good!
482
00:22:20,674 --> 00:22:21,842
The witness is excused.
483
00:22:21,925 --> 00:22:24,344
You believe this committee has
the right to compel testimony.
484
00:22:24,428 --> 00:22:26,304
You are dismissed, sir!
Witness is dismissed!
485
00:22:26,430 --> 00:22:27,973
To indict opinion,
to criminalize thought...
486
00:22:28,098 --> 00:22:29,266
THOMAS: Guard, take him out!
487
00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:30,600
...but that right
does not exist, sir!
488
00:22:30,684 --> 00:22:31,893
THOMAS: Order!
489
00:22:31,977 --> 00:22:34,021
And the moment it does,
God help us all!
490
00:22:34,104 --> 00:22:35,704
THOMAS: This is typical
communist tactic!
491
00:22:35,772 --> 00:22:38,316
This is the beginning of an
American concentration camp!
492
00:22:38,442 --> 00:22:39,651
THOMAS: Order!
(GAVEL BANGS)
493
00:22:40,027 --> 00:22:41,486
Uh, state your name, please.
494
00:22:41,611 --> 00:22:43,864
Arlen Hird.
I'm a screenwriter.
495
00:22:43,947 --> 00:22:46,700
You understand, sir,
that if you don't answer my questions,
496
00:22:46,783 --> 00:22:48,577
I can hold you in contempt
of Congress?
497
00:22:48,660 --> 00:22:50,370
I didn't refuse yet, did I?
498
00:22:50,454 --> 00:22:51,913
Are you now
or have you ever been
499
00:22:51,997 --> 00:22:53,237
a member
of the Communist Party?
500
00:22:53,832 --> 00:22:55,125
Well, I'd like to answer you,
Congressman,
501
00:22:55,208 --> 00:22:57,044
but I need to consult
with my physician.
502
00:22:57,127 --> 00:22:58,128
Your physician?
Yes.
503
00:22:58,211 --> 00:22:59,212
I don't understand.
504
00:22:59,296 --> 00:23:00,380
To find out
if he can surgically
505
00:23:00,464 --> 00:23:01,715
remove my conscience.
506
00:23:01,798 --> 00:23:02,958
(GAVEL BANGS)
(AUDIENCE LAUGH)
507
00:23:03,008 --> 00:23:04,468
THOMAS:
This is a hostile witness.
508
00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:07,554
This is typical
communist tactics.
509
00:23:07,971 --> 00:23:10,640
(COUGHING)
510
00:23:14,352 --> 00:23:15,353
(CONTINUES COUGHING)
511
00:23:15,479 --> 00:23:18,440
Arlen. Arlen, what is it?
512
00:23:18,523 --> 00:23:19,691
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
513
00:23:21,985 --> 00:23:23,487
It's cancer.
514
00:23:23,862 --> 00:23:24,905
What?
515
00:23:24,988 --> 00:23:26,782
(CONTINUES COUGHING)
516
00:23:26,865 --> 00:23:28,158
Jesus...
517
00:23:28,241 --> 00:23:30,327
(STAMMERS)
518
00:23:30,494 --> 00:23:32,174
How long have you known?
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
519
00:23:32,996 --> 00:23:35,040
Three months.
Months?
520
00:23:35,165 --> 00:23:36,374
Mmm-hmm.
521
00:23:36,833 --> 00:23:39,461
Are you receiving treatment?
522
00:23:39,544 --> 00:23:41,755
Uh, I don't like the options.
523
00:23:43,006 --> 00:23:45,050
It's lung cancer.
524
00:23:45,175 --> 00:23:46,927
Bad if you operate,
bad if you don't.
525
00:23:49,679 --> 00:23:51,932
Well, is there anything
I can do for you?
526
00:23:53,850 --> 00:23:56,728
No! No, it's cancer.
527
00:23:56,853 --> 00:23:57,854
Yeah, but...
528
00:23:57,938 --> 00:23:59,356
Jesus.
529
00:24:00,398 --> 00:24:02,943
You want to do something?
Make sure this plan works.
530
00:24:03,944 --> 00:24:05,445
I'm out of options.
531
00:24:20,043 --> 00:24:21,044
(CHUCKLES)
532
00:24:23,797 --> 00:24:26,424
We were so young.
We thought we knew everything.
533
00:24:26,550 --> 00:24:28,051
We did.
534
00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:29,553
No, not me.
535
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:33,056
No, I didn't realize how much
I loved it all
536
00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:34,432
until I reached a certain age,
537
00:24:34,558 --> 00:24:37,060
and the roles
started drying up.
538
00:24:37,144 --> 00:24:39,563
I remember thinking,
"Now what do you do
539
00:24:39,646 --> 00:24:42,190
"when you love something
but it stops loving you back?"
540
00:24:42,274 --> 00:24:43,400
You fight.
541
00:24:43,483 --> 00:24:47,320
No, no, no. You love it more
until it surrenders.
542
00:24:48,738 --> 00:24:52,075
Hedda, you never left MGM
or my heart.
543
00:24:54,452 --> 00:24:55,453
(CHUCKLES)
544
00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:56,997
How's your boy?
545
00:24:57,122 --> 00:24:58,498
Fine. Fine.
546
00:24:58,582 --> 00:24:59,875
Still in the navy?
547
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,251
Yes, he's First Lieutenant.
548
00:25:01,835 --> 00:25:03,753
You raised a real hero.
549
00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:05,422
Which is why I would like
to tell him
550
00:25:05,505 --> 00:25:07,145
that we are doing
as much for this country
551
00:25:07,257 --> 00:25:08,258
as he is.
552
00:25:08,967 --> 00:25:10,552
It's complicated.
553
00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:13,597
Trumbo, the others,
all have contracts.
554
00:25:14,848 --> 00:25:19,436
Oh, L.B., you helped build
this business as did I.
555
00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:21,897
We're not gonna watch
these pissants defile it.
556
00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:25,275
I'm running
a studio here, Hedda.
557
00:25:25,358 --> 00:25:27,819
You think I love every person
on my payroll?
558
00:25:27,944 --> 00:25:29,529
Grow up.
559
00:25:30,864 --> 00:25:32,949
Then how about I make it
crystal clear
560
00:25:33,033 --> 00:25:35,535
to my 35 million readers
561
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,290
exactly who runs Hollywood
and won't fire these traitors?
562
00:25:41,791 --> 00:25:45,462
How about I name names?
Real names.
563
00:25:45,545 --> 00:25:51,259
Jacob Warner, Jack Warner.
Schmuel Gelbfisz, Sam Goldwyn.
564
00:25:51,343 --> 00:25:54,429
And of course, yours.
Lazar Meir.
565
00:25:54,512 --> 00:25:55,972
You watch what you say to me!
566
00:25:56,056 --> 00:25:58,892
Forty years ago, you were
starving in some shtetl.
567
00:25:58,975 --> 00:26:01,186
The greatest country on Earth
takes you in,
568
00:26:01,311 --> 00:26:02,562
gives you wealth, power.
569
00:26:02,646 --> 00:26:05,565
But the second we need you,
you do nothing.
570
00:26:05,649 --> 00:26:08,151
And that's exactly
what my readers expect
571
00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:10,695
from a business
run by kikes.
572
00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:11,821
Get out!
573
00:26:15,158 --> 00:26:17,410
You know, L.B.,
I am fond of you.
574
00:26:17,661 --> 00:26:18,745
(CLICKS LIGHTER)
575
00:26:18,828 --> 00:26:20,997
Some of my happiest years
were spent on this lot.
576
00:26:21,498 --> 00:26:23,500
Not in your office, of course.
577
00:26:23,583 --> 00:26:25,877
You were always trying
to fuck me on the couch.
578
00:26:26,002 --> 00:26:29,005
Me, trying to maintain my
virtue... (CHUCKLES) Barely.
579
00:26:29,673 --> 00:26:30,924
But times change.
580
00:26:31,508 --> 00:26:33,510
Now I'd happily fuck you.
581
00:26:38,598 --> 00:26:42,811
All studios unanimously agree
to discharge the Hollywood Ten
582
00:26:42,894 --> 00:26:45,397
without compensation,
effective immediately.
583
00:26:45,522 --> 00:26:47,565
No studio will ever employ
584
00:26:47,691 --> 00:26:50,110
a member
of the Communist Party
585
00:26:50,193 --> 00:26:52,320
or anyone refusing
to cooperate
586
00:26:52,404 --> 00:26:55,365
in our struggle
with this terrible new menace.
587
00:26:55,907 --> 00:27:00,370
He's been loved by film fans
for almost 20 years.
588
00:27:00,453 --> 00:27:04,291
But have you noticed he hasn't
been on-screen much lately?
589
00:27:04,374 --> 00:27:06,001
Bad box office?
590
00:27:06,084 --> 00:27:08,837
No. Bad politics.
591
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,549
Bad news indeed
for Mr. Edward G. Robinson.
592
00:27:13,049 --> 00:27:14,384
Thank you so much for coming.
593
00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:18,471
The Hollywood Ten are going
to court for all of us.
594
00:27:19,264 --> 00:27:21,224
It'll be long, expensive,
595
00:27:21,308 --> 00:27:24,978
so please give as much as you
can to the defense fund.
596
00:27:25,061 --> 00:27:27,063
(CLAPPING)
Thank you for coming.
597
00:27:28,732 --> 00:27:30,650
Good night, my dear.
Good luck.
598
00:27:30,734 --> 00:27:32,134
Good night, sir. Thank you.
Bye-bye.
599
00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:35,697
Well, this little gathering
didn't quite have
600
00:27:35,780 --> 00:27:38,283
the zip and zing
of yesteryear, did it?
601
00:27:38,408 --> 00:27:40,452
Where are all the liberals
all of a sudden?
602
00:27:40,577 --> 00:27:42,829
At their lawyers'
or psychiatrists'.
603
00:27:42,912 --> 00:27:44,331
(CHUCKLES)
EDWARD: Hmm, likely both.
604
00:27:45,832 --> 00:27:47,000
For the defense fund.
605
00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:48,251
CLEO: Eddie...
606
00:27:49,169 --> 00:27:50,545
Have you been working?
607
00:27:50,628 --> 00:27:52,922
(INHALES) Eh.
It's a bit slow.
608
00:27:56,134 --> 00:27:57,135
You sold one.
609
00:27:58,928 --> 00:28:00,138
Oh, the van Gogh.
610
00:28:01,598 --> 00:28:03,433
Got a good price.
611
00:28:03,516 --> 00:28:04,809
Eddie...
612
00:28:06,269 --> 00:28:09,064
Dear God, look at this.
Eddie, I can't let you do...
613
00:28:09,147 --> 00:28:10,482
I'll be fine, kid, take it.
614
00:28:10,607 --> 00:28:13,276
No, it's too much.
It's just too much.
615
00:28:15,987 --> 00:28:17,280
Take it.
616
00:28:19,199 --> 00:28:21,201
Eddie, I...
617
00:28:21,284 --> 00:28:23,995
Everything that you have...
618
00:28:25,205 --> 00:28:28,416
What he's trying to say
is that he loves you.
619
00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:31,169
I love him too,
620
00:28:31,294 --> 00:28:32,962
the warty son of a bitch.
(CHUCKLES)
621
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,801
Got a great offer on the Monet if you
want to bribe the jury.
622
00:28:37,884 --> 00:28:39,719
(CHUCKLES)
623
00:28:40,136 --> 00:28:41,137
In the matter of
624
00:28:41,221 --> 00:28:43,681
the United States
v. Dalton Trumbo,
625
00:28:44,474 --> 00:28:48,478
we find the defendant guilty
of contempt of Congress.
626
00:28:48,645 --> 00:28:50,355
(AUDIENCE MURMURS)
(SIGHS)
627
00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:52,899
REPORTER: Mr. Trumbo!
Mr. Trumbo!
628
00:28:52,982 --> 00:28:54,150
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
629
00:28:54,234 --> 00:28:56,277
I'll meet you in the car.
630
00:28:56,361 --> 00:28:58,321
Mr. Trumbo, are you
in contempt of Congress?
631
00:28:58,405 --> 00:29:00,824
Well, I have total contempt
of this Congress.
632
00:29:00,907 --> 00:29:03,368
I just thought the jury
would see why.
633
00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:05,412
The Supreme Court
will drop kick
634
00:29:05,495 --> 00:29:07,622
this verdict
into speeding traffic
635
00:29:07,705 --> 00:29:09,457
and end the most
shameful chapter
636
00:29:09,541 --> 00:29:10,708
in Congressional history.
637
00:29:10,834 --> 00:29:12,794
Now, that's it, boys.
We have nothing else.
638
00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:14,045
No, we're done, we're done.
639
00:29:14,546 --> 00:29:16,131
KENNY: How are you doing
for money?
640
00:29:16,214 --> 00:29:18,758
TRUMBO: Broke as
a bankrupt's bastard. Why?
641
00:29:18,842 --> 00:29:20,468
KENNY: Well,
you owe me $30,000,
642
00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:22,762
and this appeal's gonna be
twice that.
643
00:29:22,846 --> 00:29:24,305
TRUMBO: Well,
I'd better get to work.
644
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:27,934
Doing what? You have no talent
to do anything else.
645
00:29:28,852 --> 00:29:30,728
NARRATOR:
Hollywood fights back!
646
00:29:32,021 --> 00:29:33,523
This is Gregory Peck.
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)
647
00:29:33,606 --> 00:29:35,233
A state of near hysteria
648
00:29:35,358 --> 00:29:37,360
over so-called communists
in this country
649
00:29:37,444 --> 00:29:38,820
threatens the freedom
of other citizens.
650
00:29:38,903 --> 00:29:40,023
(CLEO AND CHILDREN LAUGHING)
651
00:29:40,071 --> 00:29:42,782
So the Un-American Committee
bears its tragic fruit.
652
00:29:43,783 --> 00:29:45,368
LUCILLE: This is Lucille Ball.
653
00:29:45,743 --> 00:29:46,870
All of us agree that
654
00:29:46,953 --> 00:29:48,580
the Constitution
of the United States
655
00:29:48,705 --> 00:29:50,290
must be defended.
656
00:29:50,373 --> 00:29:51,791
But the way to do this
657
00:29:51,875 --> 00:29:54,961
is not by shutting up
the man you disagree with.
658
00:29:55,044 --> 00:29:58,173
You must fight for his right
to speak and be heard.
659
00:29:58,256 --> 00:30:00,884
All civil liberties
go hand in hand.
660
00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:03,011
And when one goes,
the others are weakened.
661
00:30:03,094 --> 00:30:05,013
Just as a collapse
of one pillar in a house
662
00:30:05,096 --> 00:30:07,056
would endanger
the whole structure.
663
00:30:13,813 --> 00:30:15,732
(TYPEWRITER
CONTINUES CLACKING)
664
00:30:18,401 --> 00:30:20,403
We'll send you home
in a couple of days.
665
00:30:22,238 --> 00:30:25,200
Well, it sounds like
you're going to live.
666
00:30:25,283 --> 00:30:28,119
Yeah, they got me just
well enough to go to prison.
667
00:30:30,622 --> 00:30:31,748
How do you feel?
668
00:30:32,582 --> 00:30:36,252
Breathing with one lung,
which is half as good as two.
669
00:30:37,253 --> 00:30:41,633
Look, Arlen,
I heard about Dorothy.
670
00:30:41,758 --> 00:30:43,885
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, she took off.
671
00:30:43,968 --> 00:30:47,096
Her timing was always amazing.
672
00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:48,473
(COUGHS)
673
00:30:48,598 --> 00:30:50,058
I'm sorry.
674
00:30:50,141 --> 00:30:53,269
No, well, I know. I mean,
how could you leave all this?
675
00:30:56,856 --> 00:30:58,650
How's it going out there?
676
00:31:00,026 --> 00:31:01,861
Everyone envies you.
677
00:31:04,697 --> 00:31:06,741
Well, why wouldn't they?
678
00:31:06,824 --> 00:31:08,785
I got the best room
in the joint.
679
00:31:09,953 --> 00:31:11,955
You should know.
You paid for it.
680
00:31:13,873 --> 00:31:14,993
MAN: Congratulations, Buddy.
681
00:31:15,083 --> 00:31:16,084
BUDDY: Thank you, fellas.
682
00:31:16,167 --> 00:31:18,586
Who needs the studios?
I am strictly independent.
683
00:31:18,670 --> 00:31:21,464
Got cans of film,
wads of Wall Street dough,
684
00:31:21,548 --> 00:31:24,259
and my favorite boss, me.
(ALL LAUGH)
685
00:31:24,342 --> 00:31:25,843
Cheers.
Cheers.
686
00:31:29,722 --> 00:31:31,307
And you,
you crazy son of a bitch,
687
00:31:31,391 --> 00:31:32,809
you're gonna write
all of my movies
688
00:31:32,892 --> 00:31:34,811
once this Washington crap
clears up.
689
00:31:35,979 --> 00:31:37,480
And how will that happen?
690
00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:39,023
I'm not political,
thank Jesus.
691
00:31:39,983 --> 00:31:41,943
If they called me in,
accused me, I'd just say,
692
00:31:42,026 --> 00:31:43,987
"Yup, did it.
Sorry, didn't mean it."
693
00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:46,656
So Congress then asks,
694
00:31:46,739 --> 00:31:49,659
"Are you now or have you ever
been a Democrat?"
695
00:31:51,077 --> 00:31:55,832
I am and, God, I just feel
awful about it.
696
00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:57,000
(ALL LAUGH)
697
00:31:57,083 --> 00:32:00,670
Then they want the names
of other Democrats.
698
00:32:00,753 --> 00:32:03,256
Bill and Earl, Nate, Tom.
699
00:32:06,301 --> 00:32:08,094
Then I say, "Go to hell."
700
00:32:08,678 --> 00:32:10,346
Really?
701
00:32:10,430 --> 00:32:13,308
How many banks fund
enemies of the state?
702
00:32:14,684 --> 00:32:16,519
Your money's gone unless
you give the names
703
00:32:16,603 --> 00:32:18,354
of your friends here.
704
00:32:18,438 --> 00:32:20,273
They'll never work again,
705
00:32:20,356 --> 00:32:22,358
but it's the only way
you ever will.
706
00:32:27,655 --> 00:32:30,450
We all know each other,
our families.
707
00:32:31,826 --> 00:32:32,869
We're friends.
708
00:32:35,163 --> 00:32:37,290
What would you do, Buddy?
709
00:32:41,836 --> 00:32:43,713
Only you. (LAUGHS)
710
00:32:43,796 --> 00:32:45,965
Piss on the best day
of a guy's life.
711
00:32:46,049 --> 00:32:48,217
Only you! (LAUGHS)
712
00:32:54,682 --> 00:32:56,559
Christ's sakes.
713
00:32:57,727 --> 00:33:00,146
According to
the protocol set forth...
714
00:33:05,735 --> 00:33:07,737
And what does she say?
715
00:33:09,739 --> 00:33:11,741
What does the princess say?
716
00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:22,085
Shit... Shit!
717
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,174
Shouldn't be any likeness...
718
00:33:28,383 --> 00:33:30,718
It concerns me a little bit.
719
00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:34,764
Oh, good morning, Nikola.
720
00:33:35,098 --> 00:33:37,558
I thought you weren't allowed
to write anymore.
721
00:33:38,267 --> 00:33:43,690
Ah. No. No, just not allowed
to put my name on it,
722
00:33:43,940 --> 00:33:45,608
or get paid.
723
00:33:45,775 --> 00:33:47,193
How does that work?
724
00:33:50,238 --> 00:33:51,739
Not very well.
725
00:33:52,949 --> 00:33:56,786
It's funny.
It's breezy and romantic.
726
00:33:57,286 --> 00:33:58,371
Who wrote it?
727
00:33:58,454 --> 00:34:01,582
(LAUGHS) You did, old boy.
728
00:34:01,874 --> 00:34:03,793
You stick your name
on my labor,
729
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,629
hand it in to your studio
and we're in business.
730
00:34:06,796 --> 00:34:09,132
Look, it is just dumb luck
that I wasn't subpoenaed
731
00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:10,925
and blacklisted myself.
732
00:34:11,092 --> 00:34:12,635
The hearings are going
to start up again soon.
733
00:34:12,802 --> 00:34:14,762
I'm going to get called
and canned.
734
00:34:14,929 --> 00:34:16,222
Well, then quick, lad.
735
00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:19,559
Let's sell this little beauty
and split the take, 50-50.
736
00:34:19,892 --> 00:34:23,312
Ridiculous. I'll take 10%.
737
00:34:23,646 --> 00:34:27,650
You'll take 20. No, 30!
And that's my final offer.
738
00:34:27,942 --> 00:34:29,485
You're the worst
businessman ever.
739
00:34:29,569 --> 00:34:30,570
Mmm.
740
00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:32,280
I hate the title.
741
00:34:32,405 --> 00:34:33,823
Me too.
742
00:34:34,907 --> 00:34:36,117
Really?
What's wrong with it?
743
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:37,952
The Princess and the Peasant.
Yes.
744
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:40,496
God, please, Trumbo,
it sounds like a puppet show.
745
00:34:41,497 --> 00:34:42,623
Well, then, change it.
746
00:34:42,749 --> 00:34:43,833
I did.
747
00:34:47,754 --> 00:34:50,006
Really? You think
this title's better?
748
00:34:50,089 --> 00:34:52,091
Roman Holiday.
749
00:34:52,467 --> 00:34:53,843
I like it.
750
00:34:54,302 --> 00:34:55,553
Who invited you?
751
00:34:55,678 --> 00:34:57,013
I did.
752
00:34:57,513 --> 00:34:59,515
She's my favorite Trumbo.
(LAUGHS)
753
00:35:00,183 --> 00:35:01,851
I'm introducing legislation
754
00:35:01,976 --> 00:35:04,520
so in the event
of a national emergency,
755
00:35:05,104 --> 00:35:08,024
all communists will be sent
to internment camps.
756
00:35:08,191 --> 00:35:09,859
And the president
supports this?
757
00:35:09,942 --> 00:35:11,110
He better.
758
00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:13,112
Parnell, I need to speak
to you privately
759
00:35:13,196 --> 00:35:15,031
about your employees.
760
00:35:15,990 --> 00:35:16,991
Excuse me, gentlemen.
761
00:35:17,116 --> 00:35:18,117
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
762
00:35:18,201 --> 00:35:19,952
As I said, Bob,
these are legitimate
763
00:35:20,036 --> 00:35:21,871
salaried employees
from my home state.
764
00:35:22,038 --> 00:35:23,039
What you didn't tell me
is that
765
00:35:23,122 --> 00:35:24,540
every one of them
is a relative.
766
00:35:24,707 --> 00:35:25,792
Which is completely legal.
767
00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:28,377
Except that none of them
pay taxes.
768
00:35:28,711 --> 00:35:30,880
Don't say anything else
without a lawyer.
769
00:35:30,963 --> 00:35:32,048
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
770
00:35:40,223 --> 00:35:41,849
No.
JEFF: Mrs. Trumbo.
771
00:35:42,475 --> 00:35:43,893
Mrs. Trumbo! Hi.
772
00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:45,478
Jeff.
773
00:35:45,978 --> 00:35:48,481
Ma'am, I gotta get paid.
774
00:35:48,731 --> 00:35:50,608
Oh. I'm so sorry.
775
00:35:50,733 --> 00:35:52,693
I got men with families.
776
00:35:53,319 --> 00:35:55,404
My husband hasn't been able
to get any work.
777
00:35:55,530 --> 00:35:57,073
We owe everyone.
778
00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:59,075
Ma'am, please.
I'm so...
779
00:35:59,242 --> 00:36:03,579
Cleo, we're rich! (LAUGHS)
780
00:36:04,747 --> 00:36:06,541
There you are, Jeffrey.
781
00:36:07,124 --> 00:36:09,877
You people sure live
exciting lives.
782
00:36:10,753 --> 00:36:12,922
Well, I thank you.
Appreciate it.
783
00:36:13,047 --> 00:36:14,423
Thank you, Betty!
784
00:36:14,590 --> 00:36:16,259
We did it, Cleo!
785
00:36:16,384 --> 00:36:19,053
We sold Roman Holiday!
Paramount.
786
00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:21,597
Our beloved Ian is just...
787
00:36:21,931 --> 00:36:22,932
Why, what's the matter?
788
00:36:23,057 --> 00:36:24,058
Judge Rutledge died.
789
00:36:24,225 --> 00:36:26,310
No, no, that was Judge Murphy
who died last month.
790
00:36:26,435 --> 00:36:27,478
And Rutledge.
791
00:36:27,770 --> 00:36:29,272
Last night.
792
00:36:36,821 --> 00:36:38,114
Mmm.
793
00:36:38,573 --> 00:36:40,783
Oh, now...
794
00:36:42,118 --> 00:36:46,247
Everything will be all right.
You'll see.
795
00:36:47,415 --> 00:36:49,709
Without a liberal majority
on the court,
796
00:36:49,792 --> 00:36:52,420
our appeal's gonna be denied.
797
00:36:53,629 --> 00:36:57,633
Meaning we should all be
prepared to go to prison.
798
00:37:06,517 --> 00:37:10,813
I wouldn't change anything
going back. Not one thing.
799
00:37:13,691 --> 00:37:15,985
Let's ask each other
in a year.
800
00:37:27,121 --> 00:37:28,372
TRUMBO: Will you do me
a favor?
801
00:37:28,706 --> 00:37:30,958
Hold on to this
while I'm gone.
802
00:37:32,627 --> 00:37:34,045
Thank you, dear.
803
00:37:36,380 --> 00:37:39,383
Your mother needs to laugh
at least once a day.
804
00:37:39,675 --> 00:37:40,801
Deal?
805
00:37:40,927 --> 00:37:42,011
Okay.
806
00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:46,223
Where's that little
pumpkin seed? (LAUGHS)
807
00:37:54,398 --> 00:37:55,983
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
808
00:37:56,525 --> 00:37:57,965
MAN: To the Hollywood Ten!
Thank you.
809
00:38:04,367 --> 00:38:05,910
MAN: To the Hollywood Ten!
810
00:38:07,036 --> 00:38:08,537
You're heroes!
811
00:38:10,831 --> 00:38:12,375
(ENGINE STARTS)
812
00:38:43,030 --> 00:38:46,075
GUARD 1:
28 cents. Gold lighter.
813
00:38:46,909 --> 00:38:50,454
Wallet. Cigarette case.
814
00:38:51,956 --> 00:38:53,290
(GATE CLOSES)
815
00:38:55,042 --> 00:38:56,085
GUARD 2: Raise your hands.
816
00:38:57,628 --> 00:39:00,423
Open your mouth. Wider.
817
00:39:01,048 --> 00:39:04,593
Turn your head to the right.
To the left.
818
00:39:05,469 --> 00:39:06,971
Tilt your head back.
819
00:39:08,431 --> 00:39:10,099
Spread your legs.
820
00:39:12,393 --> 00:39:14,603
Grab your sack
and skin it back.
821
00:39:16,731 --> 00:39:18,107
Turn around.
822
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,736
Spread your cheeks.
823
00:39:23,946 --> 00:39:27,241
Squat. Cough.
824
00:39:28,284 --> 00:39:29,577
(COUGHS)
825
00:39:30,619 --> 00:39:32,121
Turn around.
826
00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:36,125
Move out.
827
00:39:37,501 --> 00:39:38,794
Next!
828
00:39:43,966 --> 00:39:45,468
(CAMERA CLICKS)
829
00:39:47,344 --> 00:39:49,638
So the warden says
I gotta do right.
830
00:39:49,805 --> 00:39:51,474
Boy want a better job?
831
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,976
I put him in charge of
the whole goddamn supply room.
832
00:39:54,143 --> 00:39:55,743
'Cause I know something
the warden don't.
833
00:40:04,987 --> 00:40:08,657
Truck's unloaded.
Driver needs a signature.
834
00:40:08,824 --> 00:40:11,160
(COUGHS)
835
00:40:13,037 --> 00:40:14,330
(TRUMBO EXHALES)
836
00:40:20,336 --> 00:40:24,173
Actually, uh,
he needs it right here.
837
00:40:34,725 --> 00:40:39,230
You know, if, uh...
If you need any help,
838
00:40:39,396 --> 00:40:42,900
I used to run shipping
at a... At a bakery.
839
00:40:43,901 --> 00:40:45,319
Heard you's a writer.
840
00:40:45,444 --> 00:40:46,862
Well, that too.
841
00:40:47,029 --> 00:40:48,531
And a commie.
842
00:40:49,824 --> 00:40:52,201
What the fuck is wrong
with you people?
843
00:40:52,576 --> 00:40:53,869
This is a great country.
844
00:40:53,994 --> 00:40:55,246
Agreed.
845
00:40:57,039 --> 00:40:58,374
You type?
846
00:41:05,214 --> 00:41:06,423
Stop.
847
00:41:10,344 --> 00:41:13,180
Well, now,
if only I could read it.
848
00:41:19,687 --> 00:41:23,065
"Protocol as to return
of goods.
849
00:41:23,732 --> 00:41:27,236
"There shall be triplicate
copies of Form 14-A filed
850
00:41:27,403 --> 00:41:30,573
"with Supply, Shipping
and Office of the Warden."
851
00:41:32,616 --> 00:41:34,618
You think you're gonna
teach me the alphabet
852
00:41:34,785 --> 00:41:37,079
and I'm gonna shake your hand
all grateful and say,
853
00:41:37,246 --> 00:41:40,207
"Thank you, Mr. Trumbo.
You done change my life, sir.
854
00:41:40,291 --> 00:41:42,042
"I'll never forget you."
855
00:41:46,422 --> 00:41:49,133
I got 20 years
for killing me a white man
856
00:41:49,258 --> 00:41:51,051
who tried to rob my bar.
857
00:41:51,302 --> 00:41:54,096
I did it and I'd do it again.
858
00:41:54,930 --> 00:41:57,766
You look down on me
and I will fuck you up like
859
00:41:57,933 --> 00:41:59,268
you've never been fucked up
860
00:41:59,393 --> 00:42:02,730
in your whole bullshit
Beverly Hills life.
861
00:42:03,272 --> 00:42:06,442
Now I'm here trying to build
my time and make parole.
862
00:42:06,734 --> 00:42:08,611
You wanna help
make that happen?
863
00:42:13,824 --> 00:42:17,494
Welcome to fucking Supply,
Comrade.
864
00:42:24,335 --> 00:42:28,464
TRUMBO: Dear Cleo, I don't
count the days or hours...
865
00:42:29,131 --> 00:42:30,966
I count the seconds.
866
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:36,597
Sometimes I think I'll die
of boredom. Other times, fear.
867
00:42:37,181 --> 00:42:38,807
Not of this place.
868
00:42:38,933 --> 00:42:42,186
So far, its challenges
are all surmountable.
869
00:42:42,436 --> 00:42:45,147
Augmented by days
of lovely boredom.
870
00:42:45,314 --> 00:42:49,026
So flat and calm in the wake
of all that churning
871
00:42:49,193 --> 00:42:51,487
ugly luckless battle.
872
00:42:52,655 --> 00:42:56,992
No, my fear is for what
will happen when I get out.
873
00:42:57,451 --> 00:43:00,120
To our family and our country.
874
00:43:00,204 --> 00:43:01,747
(BROOKS TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
875
00:43:01,830 --> 00:43:04,333
Not all the news is worrisome.
876
00:43:04,833 --> 00:43:06,126
Some reminds me
877
00:43:06,210 --> 00:43:09,004
that what the imagination
can't conjure
878
00:43:09,546 --> 00:43:12,007
reality delivers with a shrug.
879
00:43:12,216 --> 00:43:16,845
And reality has delivered
in all its beatific wonder
880
00:43:17,012 --> 00:43:21,350
to the federal penal system,
J. Parnell Thomas,
881
00:43:21,850 --> 00:43:24,353
convicted of tax evasion.
882
00:43:25,020 --> 00:43:28,649
Well, look at us.
Just a couple of jailbirds.
883
00:43:29,692 --> 00:43:32,653
Except you actually
committed a crime.
884
00:43:37,658 --> 00:43:40,202
TRUMBO: Yet in all this,
885
00:43:40,661 --> 00:43:45,666
I know I'm the luckiest
unlucky man ever to live,
886
00:43:46,208 --> 00:43:49,878
because you and the children
warm, feed,
887
00:43:50,045 --> 00:43:53,424
clothe, pacify,
and rejuvenate me
888
00:43:54,008 --> 00:43:56,218
by never leaving my heart.
889
00:43:57,052 --> 00:44:01,432
Love, Prisoner Number 7 551.
890
00:44:07,021 --> 00:44:10,733
We're not gonna take that hill
from the Japs with bullets,
891
00:44:10,899 --> 00:44:12,776
bombs or fists.
892
00:44:12,901 --> 00:44:13,901
ALL: Yeah!
893
00:44:13,944 --> 00:44:15,144
We're gonna take it
with blood.
894
00:44:15,529 --> 00:44:18,240
Whoever spills more, loses.
895
00:44:18,782 --> 00:44:20,868
And we don't lose.
896
00:44:21,201 --> 00:44:22,328
Do we?
897
00:44:22,453 --> 00:44:23,579
ALL: No!
898
00:44:23,746 --> 00:44:25,205
(FIRING)
899
00:44:28,250 --> 00:44:29,918
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
900
00:44:30,919 --> 00:44:32,087
You lose.
901
00:44:32,254 --> 00:44:33,922
(ALL CHEERING)
That's what I thought.
902
00:44:39,053 --> 00:44:40,888
You know John Wayne?
903
00:44:41,013 --> 00:44:42,806
I do.
904
00:44:44,892 --> 00:44:47,102
What's he like?
905
00:44:47,227 --> 00:44:49,396
You'd love each other.
906
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,610
Isn't he beautiful? Okay.
907
00:44:56,612 --> 00:44:58,238
CHRIS: Mom, I got a new one.
Huh?
908
00:44:59,615 --> 00:45:00,866
(LAUGHS)
909
00:45:00,949 --> 00:45:02,451
Okay, wait.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
910
00:45:03,494 --> 00:45:05,746
Come on, you're gonna scare
the horse.
911
00:45:05,954 --> 00:45:08,457
Mom, you'd better come quick!
912
00:45:08,957 --> 00:45:10,209
STRIPLING: (ON RADIO)
Edward Robinson,
913
00:45:10,292 --> 00:45:11,835
are you now
or have you ever been
914
00:45:11,919 --> 00:45:13,462
a member
of the Communist Party?
915
00:45:13,629 --> 00:45:15,005
EDWARD: I'm not now, sir,
916
00:45:15,130 --> 00:45:17,800
nor have I ever been
a member of that party.
917
00:45:17,966 --> 00:45:20,928
I have always been
a Liberal Democrat.
918
00:45:21,095 --> 00:45:22,775
STRIPLING: But in your home
over the years,
919
00:45:22,930 --> 00:45:25,182
there have been political
meetings attended by those
920
00:45:25,265 --> 00:45:26,642
that we now know
to be communists.
921
00:45:26,809 --> 00:45:30,771
Yes, sir. Yes, that has now
been made clear to me.
922
00:45:31,188 --> 00:45:34,024
There were tremendous
activities
923
00:45:34,149 --> 00:45:35,484
and fundraisers...
Shit.
924
00:45:35,609 --> 00:45:37,778
...that went on in my house
during the war.
925
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,697
I did not know then
926
00:45:40,823 --> 00:45:44,034
all of their true affiliations
927
00:45:44,159 --> 00:45:46,286
or the work
that they were up to.
928
00:45:46,870 --> 00:45:47,996
It never entered my mind
929
00:45:48,122 --> 00:45:50,374
that any of these people
were communists.
930
00:45:51,166 --> 00:45:55,963
I was duped and used.
I was lied to.
931
00:45:56,130 --> 00:45:57,589
STRIPLING: But who used you?
932
00:45:57,714 --> 00:45:59,174
EDWARD: Well, um...
933
00:45:59,675 --> 00:46:01,051
These sinister forces
934
00:46:01,176 --> 00:46:04,388
who probably ran
these organizations.
935
00:46:04,555 --> 00:46:07,516
Oh, tell us the individuals
that you have reference to.
936
00:46:15,190 --> 00:46:16,358
Mr. Robinson?
937
00:46:19,820 --> 00:46:22,698
Well, uh,
you had Albert Maltz.
938
00:46:24,241 --> 00:46:25,576
Um...
939
00:46:26,368 --> 00:46:30,706
I knew Frank Tuttle
and that other fellow.
940
00:46:30,873 --> 00:46:32,624
(STAMMERS) That top fellow
941
00:46:32,708 --> 00:46:36,044
who they say is the, uh,
commissar out there. Um...
942
00:46:36,378 --> 00:46:37,713
STRIPLING: Arlen Hird?
943
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,214
EDWARD: Yes, yes, Arlen Hird.
944
00:46:40,007 --> 00:46:41,633
I didn't know Dmytryk at all.
945
00:46:41,758 --> 00:46:43,385
I'm a commissar now.
946
00:46:43,552 --> 00:46:47,556
Ian McLellan Hunter...
947
00:46:49,349 --> 00:46:53,020
...and, uh, Dalton Trumbo.
948
00:46:55,063 --> 00:46:56,482
STRIPLING: Thank you,
Mr. Robinson.
949
00:46:56,565 --> 00:46:58,066
EDWARD: Thank you, sir.
950
00:46:58,233 --> 00:47:00,736
STRIPLING: Mr. Chairman,
I have no further questions.
951
00:47:01,570 --> 00:47:03,697
Snitch like that in here,
952
00:47:04,531 --> 00:47:07,075
you end up fucking dead.
953
00:47:17,794 --> 00:47:20,047
Eddie ought to go back to work.
He did what he had to.
954
00:47:20,214 --> 00:47:22,925
No, no, he did
what he was forced to do.
955
00:47:23,258 --> 00:47:25,469
Well, the point is,
he did it.
956
00:47:26,762 --> 00:47:27,930
Brave men and boys
957
00:47:28,055 --> 00:47:30,098
are fighting this battle
against communism.
958
00:47:30,265 --> 00:47:33,560
They are sacrificing in ways
we can't even imagine.
959
00:47:33,936 --> 00:47:36,438
And you wanna talk about some
asshole's movie career?
960
00:47:36,939 --> 00:47:39,566
I'd see Eddie Robinson
and everyone like him dead
961
00:47:39,650 --> 00:47:42,986
if it'd bring back one boy
from Korea. Just one.
962
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,780
So what are you saying?
963
00:47:44,905 --> 00:47:47,115
Guys like Eddie cooperate
and get nothing?
964
00:47:47,783 --> 00:47:49,284
That isn't right.
965
00:47:49,409 --> 00:47:50,827
Careful, Duke.
966
00:47:51,119 --> 00:47:52,496
Or what, Hedda?
967
00:47:54,414 --> 00:47:58,001
If I'm not careful, what?
968
00:47:58,585 --> 00:48:01,421
I had no idea
you were such a softie.
969
00:48:01,755 --> 00:48:05,467
That's me all right.
All cuddles.
970
00:48:13,267 --> 00:48:14,935
Proud of ya, Eddie.
971
00:48:15,018 --> 00:48:17,646
Wasn't easy, I know.
But you did good.
972
00:48:18,605 --> 00:48:19,940
Thanks, Duke.
973
00:48:20,315 --> 00:48:23,527
I'm gonna call the studios.
The offers will pour in.
974
00:48:29,366 --> 00:48:30,826
Sure.
975
00:48:31,702 --> 00:48:33,036
(SIGHS)
976
00:48:34,663 --> 00:48:35,831
Thanks.
977
00:48:43,505 --> 00:48:44,881
(SIGHS)
978
00:48:46,466 --> 00:48:48,218
NARRATOR: One of the greatest
peacetime spy dramas
979
00:48:48,343 --> 00:48:49,344
in the nation's history
980
00:48:49,469 --> 00:48:50,846
reaches its climax,
981
00:48:50,971 --> 00:48:53,807
as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
are sentenced to death
982
00:48:54,141 --> 00:48:57,185
for revealing atomic secrets
to Soviet Russia.
983
00:48:58,395 --> 00:49:00,647
The junior senator from
Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy,
984
00:49:01,023 --> 00:49:02,232
is ramping up
his investigation
985
00:49:02,357 --> 00:49:04,026
into alleged communists
he believes
986
00:49:04,192 --> 00:49:05,569
are infiltrating
our government,
987
00:49:05,694 --> 00:49:07,195
our military, and our schools.
988
00:49:07,362 --> 00:49:09,698
...because the enemy
has been able
989
00:49:09,823 --> 00:49:12,242
to get the traitors and dupes
990
00:49:12,409 --> 00:49:15,037
to do his work
within our government.
991
00:49:15,704 --> 00:49:17,914
One communist
on the faculty
992
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,251
of one university
is one communist too many.
993
00:49:21,668 --> 00:49:23,962
A man is either loyal
or he's disloyal.
994
00:49:24,046 --> 00:49:25,088
(CROWD CHEERING)
995
00:49:30,177 --> 00:49:31,553
Thank you, Billy.
996
00:50:08,632 --> 00:50:10,759
(LAUGHS)
997
00:50:11,718 --> 00:50:13,428
(GATE CLOSES)
998
00:50:38,453 --> 00:50:40,038
MITZI: They're here!
They're here! Dad!
999
00:50:40,122 --> 00:50:41,790
CHRIS: Dad! They're home!
1000
00:50:42,332 --> 00:50:43,500
(LAUGHING)
1001
00:50:45,794 --> 00:50:49,423
I'm being attacked by giants!
Ah! (LAUGHS)
1002
00:50:49,506 --> 00:50:51,299
What have you
beautiful creatures
1003
00:50:51,425 --> 00:50:52,425
done with my little ones?
1004
00:50:52,467 --> 00:50:53,468
MITZI: Oh, Dad, we missed you.
1005
00:50:53,593 --> 00:50:56,179
Christopher. Mitzi.
NIKI: Hi, Dad.
1006
00:50:56,972 --> 00:50:58,306
My goodness.
1007
00:50:58,932 --> 00:51:00,809
Nikola, look at you.
1008
00:51:00,934 --> 00:51:02,811
CHRIS: She got real tall.
1009
00:51:03,812 --> 00:51:05,105
Oh, is that lipstick?
1010
00:51:05,230 --> 00:51:06,523
Dad...
1011
00:51:06,648 --> 00:51:07,816
(ALL LAUGH)
1012
00:51:08,191 --> 00:51:11,319
Oh, I've missed you so much.
All of you.
1013
00:51:11,611 --> 00:51:12,779
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1014
00:51:12,904 --> 00:51:14,504
Let's go inside.
I wanna hear everything.
1015
00:51:18,493 --> 00:51:20,287
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
1016
00:51:20,412 --> 00:51:22,164
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
1017
00:51:27,002 --> 00:51:29,212
Oh, I'm terribly sorry...
1018
00:51:29,504 --> 00:51:34,384
Oh, Buddy!
Well, how are you?
1019
00:51:35,469 --> 00:51:37,179
I got nothing to say to you.
1020
00:51:42,184 --> 00:51:43,185
(LAUGHS)
1021
00:51:43,310 --> 00:51:44,311
(COUGHS)
1022
00:51:44,394 --> 00:51:46,313
Looks like prison
has given us the plague.
1023
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,734
Yeah, well, that Buddy Ross,
he was always an asshole.
1024
00:51:51,067 --> 00:51:52,152
Yeah.
1025
00:51:52,277 --> 00:51:53,361
He's in trouble too.
1026
00:51:53,904 --> 00:51:55,697
Three movies, three flops.
Oh, really?
1027
00:51:55,822 --> 00:51:56,907
Mmm-hmm.
1028
00:51:57,532 --> 00:51:58,867
Look at him.
He's trying to sell his soul,
1029
00:51:58,992 --> 00:51:59,993
but he can't find it.
1030
00:52:00,076 --> 00:52:01,244
(CHUCKLES)
1031
00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:03,890
I just hope he stays afloat
long enough
1032
00:52:03,997 --> 00:52:05,237
to get the shit
sued out of him.
1033
00:52:05,373 --> 00:52:07,542
Oh, really? By whom?
1034
00:52:08,043 --> 00:52:09,294
By me and you
and all of us.
1035
00:52:09,377 --> 00:52:10,545
Jeez...
1036
00:52:10,712 --> 00:52:12,589
We use their capitalist system
against them...
1037
00:52:12,756 --> 00:52:14,841
In civil court.
We go after their money.
1038
00:52:15,008 --> 00:52:16,551
No. No. No.
For what they did to us!
1039
00:52:16,718 --> 00:52:18,261
We make them
swear under oath...
1040
00:52:18,386 --> 00:52:20,222
No, no, no. Christ!
1041
00:52:20,388 --> 00:52:22,891
Haven't you spent
enough time in court?
1042
00:52:23,058 --> 00:52:25,101
I know I have. Jesus Christ.
1043
00:52:25,268 --> 00:52:26,895
Well, what else
are we supposed to do?
1044
00:52:28,271 --> 00:52:32,526
We do the one thing
everyone says we can't.
1045
00:52:36,071 --> 00:52:39,616
Look, you're a great writer.
We make shit.
1046
00:52:39,741 --> 00:52:41,243
I don't see it.
1047
00:52:42,285 --> 00:52:44,329
Mr. King, I'm a screenwriter.
1048
00:52:44,412 --> 00:52:46,540
If I couldn't write shit,
I'd starve.
1049
00:52:46,623 --> 00:52:48,416
Trumbo, we can't afford you.
1050
00:52:49,584 --> 00:52:54,339
Well, how much did you pay
for the script of that?
1051
00:52:54,422 --> 00:52:56,758
Bad Men of Tombstone
1052
00:52:59,594 --> 00:53:00,762
$1,200.
1053
00:53:02,597 --> 00:53:06,852
All right. I'll write you
a movie for $1,200, then.
1054
00:53:06,935 --> 00:53:08,645
And you don't want
your name on it?
1055
00:53:08,770 --> 00:53:10,981
No, you don't want
my name on it.
1056
00:53:11,106 --> 00:53:12,440
HYMIE: You got that right.
1057
00:53:13,024 --> 00:53:17,028
Especially if you're still,
you know, up to stuff.
1058
00:53:17,112 --> 00:53:18,196
Are you?
1059
00:53:18,697 --> 00:53:20,156
Perpetually.
1060
00:53:21,491 --> 00:53:23,118
Jesus.
1061
00:53:23,618 --> 00:53:24,786
You got any ideas?
1062
00:53:25,954 --> 00:53:28,623
Well, I just got out
of prison.
1063
00:53:28,707 --> 00:53:30,333
What about crime?
1064
00:53:30,458 --> 00:53:33,128
A story of a gangster,
his rise and fall.
1065
00:53:33,211 --> 00:53:34,838
I've seen that a few times.
1066
00:53:34,963 --> 00:53:36,798
Because it always makes money.
1067
00:53:36,882 --> 00:53:39,009
All right,
when do I get my goods?
1068
00:53:40,051 --> 00:53:41,303
Three days.
1069
00:53:41,386 --> 00:53:43,763
FRANK: A 100-page screenplay
in three days?
1070
00:53:43,847 --> 00:53:45,599
Are you trying to fuck me?
1071
00:53:45,682 --> 00:53:47,726
'Cause if you fuck me,
I will fuck you.
1072
00:53:48,977 --> 00:53:51,146
Mr. King,
I've heard this speech.
1073
00:53:52,731 --> 00:53:54,649
It was better in jail.
1074
00:53:55,233 --> 00:53:56,651
(PHONE RINGING)
1075
00:54:23,011 --> 00:54:24,012
(GROANS)
1076
00:54:27,223 --> 00:54:28,433
(GROANS)
1077
00:54:29,017 --> 00:54:30,101
(EXHALES)
1078
00:54:31,019 --> 00:54:32,020
"No, boss...
1079
00:54:33,855 --> 00:54:34,940
"He..."
1080
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,025
(PHONE RINGING)
1081
00:54:40,028 --> 00:54:43,615
Are you kidding me with this?
Hymie, get out here!
1082
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:49,913
Hymie, pay the man!
He's a genius. Beautiful.
1083
00:54:50,038 --> 00:54:53,792
Wait a minute, look.
We got Killer in the Swamp.
1084
00:54:53,875 --> 00:54:56,378
The best character's
the swamp. Oh, oh.
1085
00:54:56,544 --> 00:54:57,545
Women in Prison.
1086
00:54:57,629 --> 00:54:59,172
Dames fighting
in their underwear.
1087
00:54:59,255 --> 00:55:01,466
It's perfect,
except it stinks.
1088
00:55:01,549 --> 00:55:02,592
What else, Hymie?
1089
00:55:02,717 --> 00:55:03,957
Pirates.
Can't afford the ocean.
1090
00:55:04,219 --> 00:55:05,220
That's it.
1091
00:55:05,804 --> 00:55:06,930
FRANK: Fix them all.
1092
00:55:07,055 --> 00:55:10,058
You want more, we got more.
Oh, baby!
1093
00:55:12,227 --> 00:55:14,145
(UPBEAT MUSIC
PLAYING ON RADIO)
1094
00:55:14,229 --> 00:55:16,523
TRUMBO: So, what do you think
of the new neighborhood?
1095
00:55:16,606 --> 00:55:18,108
MITZI: I like it.
NIKI: Yeah, this is nice.
1096
00:55:18,233 --> 00:55:19,609
CHRIS: Yeah, Dad.
Well...
1097
00:55:21,111 --> 00:55:22,737
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
1098
00:55:24,322 --> 00:55:26,241
NIKI: It's gonna be good
being in town.
1099
00:55:28,410 --> 00:55:30,120
MITZI: Whoa, look at that!
1100
00:55:35,291 --> 00:55:36,611
NIKI: I brought you
some lemonade.
1101
00:55:36,668 --> 00:55:38,003
MAN: Thank you.
1102
00:55:38,086 --> 00:55:39,546
NIKI: Hard work.
You holding up okay?
1103
00:55:39,629 --> 00:55:41,509
MAN 1: Pretty good.
MAN 2: All right, thank you.
1104
00:55:42,090 --> 00:55:44,259
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)
1105
00:55:49,806 --> 00:55:50,974
CLEO: We forgot the towels!
1106
00:55:51,099 --> 00:55:53,643
(GASPS) Oh, shoot!
Wait for me. Wait for me.
1107
00:56:13,830 --> 00:56:15,790
(FLIES BUZZING)
1108
00:56:18,334 --> 00:56:20,003
(SCREAMS)
1109
00:56:21,463 --> 00:56:23,131
(CRIES)
Mitzi... Shh!
1110
00:56:27,552 --> 00:56:29,679
(FLIES BUZZING)
1111
00:56:41,149 --> 00:56:47,655
Well, there are many angry and
ignorant people in the world.
1112
00:56:49,157 --> 00:56:52,160
They seem to be breeding
in record numbers.
1113
00:56:53,244 --> 00:56:55,580
Now, all we can do as a family
1114
00:56:55,663 --> 00:57:00,085
is stick together
and remain vigilant.
1115
00:57:14,557 --> 00:57:16,434
JOE: The Mouth of Truth.
1116
00:57:16,518 --> 00:57:18,311
Legend is that
if you're given to lying,
1117
00:57:18,394 --> 00:57:20,063
and you put your hand
in there,
1118
00:57:20,188 --> 00:57:22,273
it'll be bitten off.
1119
00:57:22,524 --> 00:57:24,275
Oh, what a horrid idea!
1120
00:57:25,068 --> 00:57:26,111
Let's see you do it.
1121
00:57:27,695 --> 00:57:29,280
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1122
00:57:31,407 --> 00:57:33,284
(LAUGHS) Let's see you do it.
1123
00:57:35,370 --> 00:57:36,538
Sure.
1124
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:44,921
(BOTH SCREAMING)
1125
00:57:45,046 --> 00:57:46,047
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
1126
00:57:48,424 --> 00:57:49,425
(SCREAMS)
1127
00:57:49,592 --> 00:57:50,802
Hello.
1128
00:57:50,885 --> 00:57:52,554
You beast!
1129
00:57:53,555 --> 00:57:56,599
It's a huge hit.
Great reviews.
1130
00:57:56,724 --> 00:58:00,061
I haven't worked
in nine months. You?
1131
00:58:01,604 --> 00:58:03,398
Well, there aren't quite
enough zeros
1132
00:58:03,481 --> 00:58:07,152
in a King Brothers' salary
to survive,
1133
00:58:07,235 --> 00:58:10,572
but they need scripts like
an army needs toilet paper.
1134
00:58:10,989 --> 00:58:14,701
Quality minimum,
quantity maximum.
1135
00:58:14,784 --> 00:58:17,036
You'd think that when
the artistic ambitions
1136
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,080
of a movie are non-existent,
1137
00:58:19,164 --> 00:58:21,791
the work would be tossed off
in a week.
1138
00:58:21,916 --> 00:58:25,587
But consistently pleasing
two former pinball salesmen
1139
00:58:25,670 --> 00:58:28,464
turns out to be
a high hurdle indeed.
1140
00:58:28,590 --> 00:58:31,718
And I've become a stranger
in my own house.
1141
00:58:31,801 --> 00:58:36,806
Every workweek is seven days.
Every day is 18 hours.
1142
00:58:36,931 --> 00:58:39,601
Every minute,
I'm further behind.
1143
00:58:40,602 --> 00:58:42,645
They need five of you.
1144
00:58:46,191 --> 00:58:48,985
FRANK: Okay, the only question
is, can these pinkos write?
1145
00:58:49,110 --> 00:58:51,905
Well, the dapper gentleman
in the gray suit
1146
00:58:51,988 --> 00:58:54,157
is Ian McLellan Hunter.
1147
00:58:54,282 --> 00:58:55,408
Guy who wrote Roman Holiday.
1148
00:58:55,491 --> 00:58:57,285
Guy who just got subpoenaed.
1149
00:58:57,368 --> 00:58:59,787
Guy who just got nominated
for an Academy Award.
1150
00:58:59,871 --> 00:59:02,540
Everyone at that table's
been nominated.
1151
00:59:03,333 --> 00:59:07,879
There's Alvah Bessie,
and Adrian Scott. Arlen Hird.
1152
00:59:07,962 --> 00:59:11,966
And Ring Lardner, Jr.
and Albert Maltz and...
1153
00:59:12,050 --> 00:59:13,468
(WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
1154
00:59:14,802 --> 00:59:16,304
TRUMBO: Um...
1155
00:59:16,387 --> 00:59:18,181
It'll be like this.
1156
00:59:18,306 --> 00:59:20,558
I'll find the writer
and work with him.
1157
00:59:20,642 --> 00:59:22,602
He'll deliver
the script to me.
1158
00:59:22,685 --> 00:59:24,187
If it's good,
I'll give it to you.
1159
00:59:24,312 --> 00:59:27,357
If it needs work,
I'll fix it.
1160
00:59:27,815 --> 00:59:29,984
No one gets paid
until you're happy.
1161
00:59:30,068 --> 00:59:33,321
And these writers, they're...
They're all...
1162
00:59:34,322 --> 00:59:35,990
I mean, they're all black...
1163
00:59:36,074 --> 00:59:37,075
Blacklisted.
1164
00:59:37,158 --> 00:59:38,618
Jesus, you're
such a chicken-shit.
1165
00:59:38,701 --> 00:59:39,911
(HYMIE SIGHS)
1166
00:59:39,994 --> 00:59:41,955
You know, we're at war
with the communists.
1167
00:59:42,038 --> 00:59:43,081
FRANK: No we're not.
1168
00:59:43,164 --> 00:59:44,123
HYMIE: It's a new kind of war.
1169
00:59:44,207 --> 00:59:46,000
FRANK: Yeah, if it
doesn't exist, very new.
1170
00:59:46,501 --> 00:59:48,002
What about the Rosenbergs?
1171
00:59:48,419 --> 00:59:49,459
What about the Rosenbergs?
1172
00:59:49,545 --> 00:59:50,588
They stole the atom bomb.
1173
00:59:50,672 --> 00:59:53,174
They didn't steal it off
a fucking camera truck.
1174
00:59:54,092 --> 00:59:57,262
So look,
we bought a gorilla suit.
1175
00:59:58,846 --> 01:00:00,056
We gotta use it.
1176
01:00:00,431 --> 01:00:01,683
(CHUCKLES)
1177
01:00:04,352 --> 01:00:05,353
Oh.
1178
01:00:06,604 --> 01:00:07,605
Well.
1179
01:00:07,689 --> 01:00:09,274
ARLEN: So,
you had five jobs.
1180
01:00:09,357 --> 01:00:10,358
TRUMBO: Mmm-hmm.
1181
01:00:10,441 --> 01:00:12,402
And now we got them
and now you got none?
1182
01:00:12,527 --> 01:00:14,570
Oh, now I'm free to
get five more jobs
1183
01:00:14,696 --> 01:00:16,239
and five more writers.
1184
01:00:16,364 --> 01:00:18,157
And you each get
five more jobs
1185
01:00:18,241 --> 01:00:20,326
and five more writers
and so on.
1186
01:00:20,410 --> 01:00:21,411
To keep that going,
1187
01:00:21,536 --> 01:00:23,079
we'd have to write
every script in the business.
1188
01:00:23,204 --> 01:00:27,166
Oh, Arlen,
what a devious lad.
1189
01:00:27,250 --> 01:00:28,418
(ARLEN CHUCKLES)
1190
01:00:28,543 --> 01:00:29,502
(ARLEN COUGHING)
So who wants to write
1191
01:00:29,585 --> 01:00:31,170
a gorilla movie?
1192
01:00:31,254 --> 01:00:32,922
Who doesn't?
(ALL LAUGHING)
1193
01:00:33,047 --> 01:00:36,342
We now work at midnight
1194
01:00:36,426 --> 01:00:40,430
in thick fog among strangers.
1195
01:00:42,557 --> 01:00:43,933
Not literally.
1196
01:00:44,392 --> 01:00:46,311
We're running
a family business.
1197
01:00:46,394 --> 01:00:48,980
We'll be adding
new phone lines,
1198
01:00:49,063 --> 01:00:52,942
and when answering,
never say, "Trumbo residence."
1199
01:00:53,067 --> 01:00:55,486
I'll be writing for
various producers
1200
01:00:55,570 --> 01:00:57,322
under different names.
1201
01:00:57,405 --> 01:00:59,782
Whomever they ask for,
you come find me.
1202
01:00:59,907 --> 01:01:01,075
Or take a message.
1203
01:01:03,411 --> 01:01:05,455
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
1204
01:01:06,748 --> 01:01:07,915
Hello?
1205
01:01:08,041 --> 01:01:09,125
MAN: Is John Abbott there?
1206
01:01:09,250 --> 01:01:10,752
No, sir,
may I take a message?
1207
01:01:10,835 --> 01:01:14,130
The door must be
answered at all hours.
1208
01:01:14,255 --> 01:01:15,256
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1209
01:01:16,132 --> 01:01:19,260
Got a pickup for
Sally Stubblefield.
1210
01:01:22,472 --> 01:01:24,015
Can I get your mom to sign?
1211
01:01:28,644 --> 01:01:29,687
Thank you.
1212
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:36,027
Dictation, shorthand
and typing will be learned.
1213
01:01:36,110 --> 01:01:37,487
Those of legal age
1214
01:01:37,653 --> 01:01:40,365
will have one of the most
important jobs imaginable.
1215
01:01:40,448 --> 01:01:41,449
Courier.
1216
01:01:42,367 --> 01:01:44,744
Scripts must be
delivered to producers
1217
01:01:44,827 --> 01:01:46,954
without raising suspicion.
1218
01:01:47,038 --> 01:01:49,791
Any questions? Concerns?
1219
01:01:50,375 --> 01:01:52,377
Yes, Nikola.
Is there a schedule?
1220
01:01:52,460 --> 01:01:53,503
A what?
1221
01:01:53,628 --> 01:01:54,712
NIKI: I need to know
when I can do homework.
1222
01:01:54,796 --> 01:01:56,589
And I'm part of
a fundraising committee
1223
01:01:56,672 --> 01:01:58,132
for Negro voting rights.
1224
01:01:58,216 --> 01:01:59,592
Plus, every other Friday,
1225
01:01:59,675 --> 01:02:01,552
we have meetings
for Student Council.
1226
01:02:01,636 --> 01:02:02,970
I'm... I have to...
1227
01:02:03,054 --> 01:02:05,056
Niki, we'll figure
something out, sweetheart.
1228
01:02:05,807 --> 01:02:06,808
Won't we?
1229
01:02:08,851 --> 01:02:10,019
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)
MAN: And protests continued
1230
01:02:10,144 --> 01:02:12,522
as the Supreme Court
may soon take up
1231
01:02:12,647 --> 01:02:14,649
the issue of
racial segregation.
1232
01:02:14,982 --> 01:02:16,609
Negros in Southern
towns and cities
1233
01:02:16,692 --> 01:02:19,028
have taken to the streets
in large numbers.
1234
01:02:19,153 --> 01:02:22,490
All under close scrutiny
by local law enforcement.
1235
01:02:22,573 --> 01:02:24,409
There have been
unconfirmed reports
1236
01:02:24,492 --> 01:02:26,369
of disturbances and rioting.
1237
01:02:26,494 --> 01:02:27,620
But it is not clear
1238
01:02:27,703 --> 01:02:30,289
if the violence was
initiated by protesters...
1239
01:02:30,373 --> 01:02:31,916
Nikola!
1240
01:02:32,041 --> 01:02:33,584
...or white vigilante groups.
1241
01:02:33,709 --> 01:02:36,295
Beyond the South,
through the nation...
1242
01:02:36,379 --> 01:02:38,673
Now, there you go.
1243
01:02:38,756 --> 01:02:41,008
A few mistakes, not many.
1244
01:02:41,551 --> 01:02:42,593
All right.
1245
01:02:42,677 --> 01:02:45,513
MAN 2: ...all top-salaried
government officials
1246
01:02:45,596 --> 01:02:46,848
should make a full
public statement
1247
01:02:46,931 --> 01:02:48,015
of their income...
1248
01:02:48,349 --> 01:02:51,519
MAN: This concludes our
program scheduled for today.
1249
01:03:16,627 --> 01:03:19,630
Which one is Graham Tauper?
1250
01:03:21,382 --> 01:03:22,842
Nympho Nun.
1251
01:03:22,925 --> 01:03:24,051
Oh.
1252
01:03:24,177 --> 01:03:25,261
Great job.
1253
01:03:26,095 --> 01:03:29,515
Uh, Elwood Carr,
Murder at the Circus.
1254
01:03:29,599 --> 01:03:31,476
It needs work.
I knew the clown did it.
1255
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:33,227
It's always the clown.
1256
01:03:34,395 --> 01:03:36,939
So you are
The Alien and the Farm Girl.
1257
01:03:37,064 --> 01:03:38,065
Yeah.
1258
01:03:38,649 --> 01:03:40,026
So you wrote the alien
1259
01:03:40,109 --> 01:03:42,111
talking about the rights
of the worker.
1260
01:03:42,778 --> 01:03:44,947
The pathology of capitalism.
1261
01:03:45,573 --> 01:03:48,159
The complacency
of the bourgeoisie.
1262
01:03:48,242 --> 01:03:50,703
I don't even know what it is
and I fucking hate it.
1263
01:03:50,786 --> 01:03:52,538
Well, the idea
was to use the...
1264
01:03:52,622 --> 01:03:54,248
I paid you to
write a script about
1265
01:03:54,332 --> 01:03:58,878
a guy with a giant bug head
shtupping a girl in a hayloft.
1266
01:03:58,961 --> 01:04:00,129
And you write shit
1267
01:04:00,254 --> 01:04:03,674
that's gonna get me
subpoenaed, and stinks!
1268
01:04:04,967 --> 01:04:06,302
Fix it!
1269
01:04:07,136 --> 01:04:08,638
ARLEN: Well, fuck Frank King.
1270
01:04:08,763 --> 01:04:11,516
I said, until he's happy,
I'd rewrite.
1271
01:04:11,599 --> 01:04:13,518
So you're gonna
stay up with that all night,
1272
01:04:13,601 --> 01:04:15,269
for that crap?
1273
01:04:15,353 --> 01:04:16,354
For what?
1274
01:04:16,437 --> 01:04:19,023
To get it to his high literary
and political standards?
1275
01:04:19,106 --> 01:04:22,818
Well, it shouldn't be
to anyone's political standards.
1276
01:04:22,944 --> 01:04:24,570
It's The Alien
and the Farm Girl,
1277
01:04:24,654 --> 01:04:25,655
for Christ's sake.
1278
01:04:25,780 --> 01:04:27,114
What the hell
were you thinking?
1279
01:04:27,198 --> 01:04:28,533
ARLEN: I was thinking.
1280
01:04:28,616 --> 01:04:32,036
That's why I'm a writer.
To say things that matter.
1281
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:33,454
Remember that?
1282
01:04:33,538 --> 01:04:37,667
I was a reporter. I was
nominated for a Pulitzer.
1283
01:04:37,792 --> 01:04:41,128
I fought in Spain,
and I know Ernest Hemingway.
1284
01:04:41,212 --> 01:04:43,965
I actually... I know him.
Oh, bullshit.
1285
01:04:44,048 --> 01:04:45,174
And he knows me.
1286
01:04:45,299 --> 01:04:47,677
If I walked into
a bar in Paris, he...
1287
01:04:47,802 --> 01:04:49,136
Maybe not my name,
but he'll...
1288
01:04:49,220 --> 01:04:50,263
I'll get a wave.
1289
01:04:50,346 --> 01:04:51,681
Yeah.
1290
01:04:51,806 --> 01:04:54,809
You... You won the
National fucking Book Award.
1291
01:04:55,393 --> 01:04:56,852
I mean, what are we doing?
1292
01:04:56,978 --> 01:04:57,979
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
1293
01:05:01,524 --> 01:05:02,525
Okay, so the alien...
1294
01:05:03,484 --> 01:05:05,570
The alien
impregnates the farm girl.
1295
01:05:05,653 --> 01:05:06,737
Right.
Why?
1296
01:05:06,821 --> 01:05:08,698
Because he wants to
inseminate her
1297
01:05:08,823 --> 01:05:10,283
and propagate a new species
1298
01:05:10,366 --> 01:05:11,534
on Earth and take over?
No.
1299
01:05:11,659 --> 01:05:15,162
Because she reminds him
of the girl he left behind.
1300
01:05:15,746 --> 01:05:16,789
But he's got a bug head.
1301
01:05:16,872 --> 01:05:19,000
His girlfriend's probably got
a bug head back home.
1302
01:05:19,083 --> 01:05:21,294
You don't get hung up
on the looks of someone.
1303
01:05:21,377 --> 01:05:22,837
He's falling
in love with her.
1304
01:05:23,838 --> 01:05:25,256
Uh, okay.
1305
01:05:25,339 --> 01:05:27,592
You're over-thinking.
1306
01:05:28,175 --> 01:05:30,011
(COUGHING)
1307
01:05:31,095 --> 01:05:32,096
(EXHALES)
1308
01:05:32,263 --> 01:05:34,098
Are you all right?
Yeah.
1309
01:05:34,181 --> 01:05:35,891
You want to do this later?
1310
01:05:36,017 --> 01:05:37,685
No. Go, please.
1311
01:05:37,768 --> 01:05:38,769
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
1312
01:05:40,855 --> 01:05:42,231
All right.
1313
01:05:42,356 --> 01:05:46,444
I mean, do you ever miss
writing something...
1314
01:05:46,527 --> 01:05:47,903
Forget great, just good?
1315
01:05:49,196 --> 01:05:52,033
I mean, you must
have ideas still, right?
1316
01:05:52,908 --> 01:05:54,702
I've got a few.
1317
01:05:54,785 --> 01:05:57,705
There's one
that won't go away.
1318
01:05:57,788 --> 01:06:03,502
Cleo and I are in Mexico
at a bullfight years ago.
1319
01:06:03,586 --> 01:06:06,589
And the bull dies.
1320
01:06:06,756 --> 01:06:11,010
And, uh, thousands of people
are just cheering.
1321
01:06:11,093 --> 01:06:12,928
Three weren't.
1322
01:06:13,054 --> 01:06:17,933
Cleo, me and this
young boy down front,
1323
01:06:19,935 --> 01:06:21,604
crying.
1324
01:06:23,981 --> 01:06:26,108
Always wondered why.
1325
01:06:28,110 --> 01:06:30,488
Well, (COUGHS) you
write it and you'll know.
1326
01:06:32,615 --> 01:06:37,411
But please promise me,
not for Frank fucking King.
1327
01:06:38,663 --> 01:06:39,914
Please.
1328
01:06:40,039 --> 01:06:41,248
(CHUCKLES)
1329
01:06:41,582 --> 01:06:43,084
To present the writing awards,
1330
01:06:43,167 --> 01:06:45,294
here is an actor
who also reads.
1331
01:06:45,378 --> 01:06:46,796
Mr. Kirk Douglas.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1332
01:06:46,879 --> 01:06:49,840
Niki, hurry!
1333
01:06:49,924 --> 01:06:52,009
NIKI: Who's doing it?
1334
01:06:52,093 --> 01:06:53,427
MITZI: Kirk Douglas!
1335
01:06:53,552 --> 01:06:54,887
NIKI: I'm coming,
I'm coming!
1336
01:06:58,891 --> 01:07:00,184
The envelope.
1337
01:07:02,436 --> 01:07:05,648
And the Oscar goes to
1338
01:07:05,731 --> 01:07:06,816
Roman Holiday
1339
01:07:06,899 --> 01:07:08,567
by Ian McLellan Hunter.
(GASPS)
1340
01:07:08,651 --> 01:07:12,905
Yes! That's you, Dad,
that's you!
1341
01:07:12,988 --> 01:07:15,199
CHRIS:
Dad, that is fantastic!
1342
01:07:15,324 --> 01:07:16,325
(CLEO KISSING)
1343
01:07:19,537 --> 01:07:22,623
KIRK: This is accepted on behalf
of Ian McLellan Hunter.
1344
01:07:22,707 --> 01:07:24,917
So do we get to be
happy now?
1345
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:26,377
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1346
01:07:36,303 --> 01:07:38,889
I don't want it.
1347
01:07:38,973 --> 01:07:40,933
Well, I don't want it.
1348
01:07:41,016 --> 01:07:42,309
Your name's on it.
1349
01:07:43,644 --> 01:07:44,770
You wrote it.
1350
01:07:45,187 --> 01:07:46,747
They gave it to you.
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
1351
01:07:48,816 --> 01:07:50,860
And it's done me wonders.
1352
01:07:52,611 --> 01:07:54,321
Here's the gorilla script.
1353
01:07:54,947 --> 01:07:55,948
Huh.
1354
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:57,533
CHRIS: Hey, Dad.
Ah?
1355
01:07:57,616 --> 01:07:59,201
Phone for you.
1356
01:07:59,326 --> 01:08:00,953
TRUMBO: For which name?
1357
01:08:01,036 --> 01:08:03,414
No, you. Some guy
named Buddy Ross.
1358
01:08:03,497 --> 01:08:04,498
Huh.
1359
01:08:06,208 --> 01:08:11,088
So, is the rumor true?
You wrote Roman Holiday?
1360
01:08:13,924 --> 01:08:15,968
What can I do for you, Buddy?
1361
01:08:16,594 --> 01:08:20,848
My movies have all bombed.
Dug me into a hole.
1362
01:08:20,931 --> 01:08:22,767
I finally got something going.
1363
01:08:22,850 --> 01:08:23,976
Classy.
1364
01:08:24,059 --> 01:08:27,521
Three big stars.
The script...
1365
01:08:28,022 --> 01:08:29,023
(BUDDY SIGHS)
1366
01:08:29,231 --> 01:08:32,109
What script?
There is no script.
1367
01:08:32,193 --> 01:08:33,194
I got 11 writers
who fucked me
1368
01:08:33,277 --> 01:08:34,653
and now the actors
are gonna pull out.
1369
01:08:34,737 --> 01:08:38,699
And if they do,
I lose everything.
1370
01:08:39,325 --> 01:08:41,702
When do you shoot?
1371
01:08:41,786 --> 01:08:43,120
Ten days.
1372
01:08:44,371 --> 01:08:45,790
Is there anything?
1373
01:08:52,129 --> 01:08:54,924
There'd be no credit,
obviously.
1374
01:08:55,007 --> 01:08:57,009
I can't pay you till
we start shooting.
1375
01:08:59,261 --> 01:09:00,262
(SCOFFS)
1376
01:09:00,638 --> 01:09:03,474
I wouldn't blame you
if you spit in my face.
1377
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,977
But we did good stuff
back then.
1378
01:09:08,437 --> 01:09:09,980
We really did.
1379
01:09:13,776 --> 01:09:15,110
Please.
1380
01:09:17,905 --> 01:09:22,159
I owe the King Brothers
a rewrite.
1381
01:09:22,243 --> 01:09:23,869
And I can't do both.
1382
01:09:25,079 --> 01:09:27,706
Here it is. I need
you to take over.
1383
01:09:28,916 --> 01:09:30,709
So you can help that
great guy, Buddy Ross.
1384
01:09:30,793 --> 01:09:31,794
Mmm-mmm.
1385
01:09:31,877 --> 01:09:34,129
So we can keep tearing down
the blacklist.
1386
01:09:34,213 --> 01:09:36,340
Oh, Jesus, here we go.
1387
01:09:36,423 --> 01:09:37,863
This is going to be
a very big movie,
1388
01:09:37,925 --> 01:09:39,051
and if Buddy
gets a good script...
1389
01:09:39,134 --> 01:09:40,135
Which you're gonna give him.
1390
01:09:40,219 --> 01:09:41,846
No, which I am
going to sell him.
1391
01:09:41,929 --> 01:09:43,472
For money, 'cause that's why
we did all of this, right?
1392
01:09:43,556 --> 01:09:44,598
Was for the money.
1393
01:09:44,682 --> 01:09:46,976
Why can you not see this?
1394
01:09:47,059 --> 01:09:51,230
If we get one big movie,
we can get all the big movies.
1395
01:09:51,313 --> 01:09:52,898
And then this
whole rotten thing
1396
01:09:52,982 --> 01:09:54,567
could collapse
on the sheer irony
1397
01:09:54,650 --> 01:09:57,194
that every unemployable
writer is employed.
1398
01:09:57,278 --> 01:09:59,446
Jesus Christ, do you
have to say everything
1399
01:09:59,530 --> 01:10:01,824
like it's going to be
chiseled into a rock?
1400
01:10:01,907 --> 01:10:04,201
I'm not gonna help you
help Buddy Ross!
1401
01:10:04,285 --> 01:10:05,744
TRUMBO: God's sake!
1402
01:10:05,828 --> 01:10:07,454
You are against every...
ARLEN: No, I...
1403
01:10:07,580 --> 01:10:09,915
...solid idea that comes up.
ARLEN: Let's do something!
1404
01:10:09,999 --> 01:10:11,667
These fuckers did things!
1405
01:10:11,750 --> 01:10:14,962
We should be suing that
cockroach into the ground
1406
01:10:15,087 --> 01:10:17,131
along with those congressmen...
There's an idea.
1407
01:10:17,214 --> 01:10:18,215
Yes, and the producers!
Very good one.
1408
01:10:18,299 --> 01:10:19,717
Yes, and the studios!
That'll be better.
1409
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:21,677
We should sue them!
Oh, yes, brilliant!
1410
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:24,179
Keep losing. Give all
of your money away to lawyers!
1411
01:10:24,263 --> 01:10:25,848
I'd rather lose
for the right reasons.
1412
01:10:25,931 --> 01:10:27,016
Why?
1413
01:10:27,099 --> 01:10:29,393
It's still losing.
1414
01:10:29,476 --> 01:10:34,315
You lose. I lose.
We all lose!
1415
01:10:34,398 --> 01:10:36,233
Don't you see that?
1416
01:10:36,317 --> 01:10:39,862
And the whole goddamn country
stays scared and dead.
1417
01:10:40,529 --> 01:10:41,530
Well, you really think
1418
01:10:41,614 --> 01:10:42,990
you can go on
living like this forever?
1419
01:10:43,073 --> 01:10:44,867
Well, I'm not gonna have to.
1420
01:10:47,745 --> 01:10:51,665
(SIGHS)
Arlen, we can do this.
1421
01:10:51,749 --> 01:10:54,001
We can beat them.
We can win!
1422
01:10:54,084 --> 01:10:55,961
I don't care if I win.
Bullshit!
1423
01:10:56,045 --> 01:10:57,171
Everybody wants to win.
1424
01:10:57,254 --> 01:10:59,798
No, you want to win.
I want to change things.
1425
01:10:59,882 --> 01:11:00,883
I want to win
1426
01:11:01,008 --> 01:11:02,648
so that I can change things.
No you don't!
1427
01:11:02,676 --> 01:11:03,677
You want to win so that
1428
01:11:03,761 --> 01:11:05,554
you can get an Oscar with
your name on it this time.
1429
01:11:05,638 --> 01:11:08,182
And so you can get more money
that you burn through,
1430
01:11:08,265 --> 01:11:09,683
writing shit for idiots!
1431
01:11:09,767 --> 01:11:11,769
Why do I have to
explain everything to you
1432
01:11:11,852 --> 01:11:13,187
like you're a fucking child?
1433
01:11:13,270 --> 01:11:14,271
You don't have to.
1434
01:11:14,355 --> 01:11:15,648
You really don't have to.
Piss off!
1435
01:11:15,731 --> 01:11:18,317
You know, you do what you do
and that's fine for you.
1436
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:20,945
But don't pretend that
you getting your career back
1437
01:11:21,028 --> 01:11:23,864
is part of some great crusade
for mankind. Okay?
1438
01:11:23,948 --> 01:11:25,950
I'm doing this for everyone.
(COUGHING)
1439
01:11:29,244 --> 01:11:30,621
Arlen...
1440
01:11:31,538 --> 01:11:32,790
(DOOR SLAMS)
1441
01:11:35,459 --> 01:11:36,794
(CLICKS TONGUE)
1442
01:11:43,676 --> 01:11:46,220
Fucking idiot.
1443
01:12:28,387 --> 01:12:32,391
Happy birthday to you
1444
01:12:32,474 --> 01:12:36,979
Happy birthday, dear Nikola
1445
01:12:37,688 --> 01:12:42,192
Happy birthday to you
1446
01:12:42,860 --> 01:12:44,403
CLEO: Make a wish.
1447
01:12:45,070 --> 01:12:46,321
(CAMERA CLICKING)
Ah.
1448
01:12:46,613 --> 01:12:47,990
I got it.
(CHRIS CHUCKLES)
1449
01:12:48,615 --> 01:12:50,367
CLEO: Sweet 16!
1450
01:12:50,451 --> 01:12:52,077
Get together
with your sister.
1451
01:12:52,161 --> 01:12:53,328
Chris, get in there.
1452
01:12:53,704 --> 01:12:55,622
(CAMERA CLICKING)
Ah. Thank you.
1453
01:12:55,706 --> 01:12:57,374
Are you sure
we shouldn't go knock?
1454
01:12:58,208 --> 01:12:59,501
I'm sure.
1455
01:12:59,585 --> 01:13:00,794
He can't take five minutes?
1456
01:13:00,919 --> 01:13:02,087
CLEO: Nope.
1457
01:13:03,047 --> 01:13:04,256
Two minutes?
1458
01:13:04,381 --> 01:13:05,549
CLEO: Niki.
1459
01:13:05,632 --> 01:13:07,509
One minute.
1460
01:13:07,885 --> 01:13:08,886
(SIGHS)
1461
01:13:12,431 --> 01:13:13,849
Chris, would you please
get the good plates?
1462
01:13:13,932 --> 01:13:15,601
Yes, Mom.
Thank you.
1463
01:13:16,602 --> 01:13:19,063
(TRUMBO SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
1464
01:13:19,855 --> 01:13:21,106
Dad!
1465
01:13:22,983 --> 01:13:24,902
Dad!
TRUMBO: Go away!
1466
01:13:26,403 --> 01:13:27,946
We're having birthday cake.
1467
01:13:28,030 --> 01:13:31,784
When you hear me working,
you don't knock!
1468
01:13:31,867 --> 01:13:33,744
But it's my birthday.
1469
01:13:33,827 --> 01:13:36,121
You don't knock! Ever!
1470
01:13:36,205 --> 01:13:38,832
So the house is on fire,
you don't want to know?
1471
01:13:38,916 --> 01:13:42,669
I work in a bathtub,
surrounded by water.
1472
01:13:42,753 --> 01:13:43,921
So I'm fairly certain
1473
01:13:44,004 --> 01:13:46,632
that even if the whole
goddamn country was on fire,
1474
01:13:46,715 --> 01:13:48,383
that I could still function
1475
01:13:48,467 --> 01:13:50,135
as this family's
personal slave.
1476
01:13:50,219 --> 01:13:52,971
And all I ask is
to not be interrupted
1477
01:13:53,055 --> 01:13:56,308
for every little slice
of fucking birthday cake!
1478
01:13:57,559 --> 01:13:59,895
What? It's ridiculous!
1479
01:14:01,021 --> 01:14:04,399
Now I've lost my place.
Christ's sake!
1480
01:14:09,071 --> 01:14:10,531
EDWARD: (ON TV)
...sure, maybe you, uh,
1481
01:14:10,614 --> 01:14:13,408
get that long,
happy life we all want.
1482
01:14:13,492 --> 01:14:16,203
But your eyes
never really close again.
1483
01:14:16,286 --> 01:14:18,080
'Cause you spend that life
1484
01:14:18,163 --> 01:14:20,916
scared of every
noise in the dark.
1485
01:14:20,999 --> 01:14:25,337
We both do. I can't
let you do this, Rocco.
1486
01:14:25,420 --> 01:14:27,965
I'll just have to
convince you I'm right.
1487
01:14:28,674 --> 01:14:29,842
(GASPS)
1488
01:14:38,433 --> 01:14:39,434
(GRUNTS)
1489
01:14:40,644 --> 01:14:45,023
After all, kid,
what are friends for?
1490
01:15:01,456 --> 01:15:03,041
NIKI: Don't defend him, okay?
1491
01:15:03,125 --> 01:15:05,169
He knows he's wrong.
1492
01:15:05,252 --> 01:15:07,462
He hasn't even apologized.
1493
01:15:07,546 --> 01:15:08,797
I think you surprised him.
1494
01:15:09,381 --> 01:15:11,842
He's not used to seeing
another adult in the house.
1495
01:15:11,925 --> 01:15:14,469
He has to be right
all the time.
1496
01:15:14,553 --> 01:15:16,597
How do you stand it?
1497
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:19,016
Well, it's challenging sometimes,
especially lately.
1498
01:15:19,183 --> 01:15:20,184
(SNIFFLES)
1499
01:15:21,018 --> 01:15:23,437
Hey, why don't you come
downstairs with me?
1500
01:15:24,021 --> 01:15:25,397
I wanna show you something.
1501
01:15:31,820 --> 01:15:32,905
You see my gloves?
1502
01:15:35,949 --> 01:15:37,284
Thank you.
1503
01:15:38,619 --> 01:15:39,620
(EXHALES)
1504
01:15:47,628 --> 01:15:49,713
Do you imagine
that's his head?
1505
01:15:53,258 --> 01:15:56,011
No. But you can.
1506
01:16:11,235 --> 01:16:14,363
Niki, is that
the script already?
1507
01:16:14,446 --> 01:16:15,447
Fantastic.
1508
01:16:15,948 --> 01:16:18,075
Ah. Tell your dad that...
1509
01:16:30,003 --> 01:16:31,213
(TRUMBO SIGHS)
1510
01:16:41,181 --> 01:16:45,060
Oh, hello. Um, I'm
looking for Arlen Hird.
1511
01:16:45,143 --> 01:16:46,937
Mr. Trumbo, it's Andrew.
1512
01:16:47,938 --> 01:16:51,233
Good God! Look...
Look at you!
1513
01:16:52,317 --> 01:16:55,821
Wow. Well, I'm certain
your father
1514
01:16:55,904 --> 01:16:58,532
has told you some
nasty things about me,
1515
01:16:58,615 --> 01:17:00,033
but I want to assure you,
1516
01:17:00,117 --> 01:17:02,828
they're all true.
1517
01:17:02,911 --> 01:17:05,163
Is, uh... Is he home?
1518
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,334
I'm sorry.
I thought you knew.
1519
01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:28,103
I'm so sorry.
Thank you so much.
1520
01:17:32,107 --> 01:17:33,442
Andrew.
1521
01:17:35,485 --> 01:17:37,362
Joshua.
1522
01:17:37,446 --> 01:17:40,449
ANDREW: My dad
left something for you.
1523
01:17:40,532 --> 01:17:41,658
It's a record.
1524
01:17:42,492 --> 01:17:45,245
Money that he owed you
and some other people.
1525
01:17:47,914 --> 01:17:50,292
I'm sorry. I wish
we could pay you back.
1526
01:17:53,128 --> 01:17:54,421
TRUMBO: Andrew, no.
1527
01:17:56,048 --> 01:17:57,591
I owed him.
1528
01:18:01,345 --> 01:18:03,305
The debts are all mine.
1529
01:18:05,932 --> 01:18:07,267
Thank you.
1530
01:18:08,477 --> 01:18:10,187
(ANDREW SNIFFLES)
1531
01:18:14,107 --> 01:18:15,317
(ANDREW EXHALES)
1532
01:18:29,331 --> 01:18:30,957
Well...
1533
01:18:31,083 --> 01:18:32,626
TRUMBO: Hello, Eddie.
1534
01:18:35,796 --> 01:18:37,923
This is
a bit of a surprise.
1535
01:18:42,969 --> 01:18:44,388
What can I do for you?
1536
01:18:45,055 --> 01:18:46,556
Arlen died.
1537
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:48,850
I heard. I was on location.
1538
01:18:53,980 --> 01:18:57,359
This is the money you gave us
for the defense fund.
1539
01:18:57,442 --> 01:18:59,694
It's everything that we
owe you. Arlen included.
1540
01:18:59,778 --> 01:19:02,030
No, now, that was a gift.
1541
01:19:02,239 --> 01:19:04,324
We'd like it
off our books.
1542
01:19:06,034 --> 01:19:09,287
What is this supposed to be?
Some kind of message?
1543
01:19:10,622 --> 01:19:11,623
What you and Arlen
1544
01:19:11,706 --> 01:19:13,959
and the great Hollywood Ten
all think of me.
1545
01:19:19,548 --> 01:19:22,509
Fine. Fine. But first
you're gonna listen.
1546
01:19:26,555 --> 01:19:28,682
After you went to jail,
1547
01:19:31,017 --> 01:19:33,353
I didn't work for a year.
1548
01:19:35,605 --> 01:19:38,024
No offers,
not even an audition.
1549
01:19:38,900 --> 01:19:43,196
People would see me,
cross the street.
1550
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:44,364
People I loved.
1551
01:19:46,575 --> 01:19:48,493
People I made rich.
1552
01:19:50,287 --> 01:19:51,663
I sat in front of
that committee.
1553
01:19:51,746 --> 01:19:54,332
Why? I didn't do anything.
1554
01:19:54,416 --> 01:19:57,878
None of us did anything.
We were all stupid babies.
1555
01:19:58,628 --> 01:20:01,590
With no business
in any of it.
1556
01:20:02,799 --> 01:20:04,634
I just wanted my life back.
1557
01:20:06,303 --> 01:20:10,056
They had every name.
Yours, Arlen's, everybody's.
1558
01:20:10,140 --> 01:20:14,394
I didn't give them anything
they didn't already have.
1559
01:20:14,478 --> 01:20:19,357
I ended it, is all.
I just... I ended it!
1560
01:20:19,441 --> 01:20:25,197
Oh, Eddie, you don't
end something like this.
1561
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:29,242
By giving them what
they have no right to ask.
1562
01:20:29,326 --> 01:20:32,537
You're gonna tell me
how I should have handled it?
1563
01:20:33,580 --> 01:20:35,624
Like you handled Congress?
1564
01:20:37,083 --> 01:20:40,045
So you're saying that
you're proud of what you did?
1565
01:20:40,128 --> 01:20:43,924
Proud? Who the hell
gets to be proud?
1566
01:20:44,007 --> 01:20:45,425
You. You do.
(SCOFFS)
1567
01:20:45,509 --> 01:20:47,552
You with your fake names
and your fronts.
1568
01:20:47,636 --> 01:20:49,012
You've got
all the work you want.
1569
01:20:49,095 --> 01:20:52,098
I gotta go out
in the world every day.
1570
01:20:52,182 --> 01:20:53,767
This is my work.
1571
01:20:56,061 --> 01:20:58,772
I've got nobody else to be.
1572
01:20:58,855 --> 01:21:00,941
I did what I had to.
1573
01:21:01,024 --> 01:21:03,109
You did what
you wanted, Eddie.
1574
01:21:04,528 --> 01:21:06,530
And you did it for more.
1575
01:21:07,948 --> 01:21:10,867
More movies, more money,
1576
01:21:11,660 --> 01:21:14,663
more dead bullshit
on your walls.
1577
01:21:22,462 --> 01:21:24,631
What I did, I did,
1578
01:21:25,757 --> 01:21:27,175
but did you ever wonder
how many years
1579
01:21:27,259 --> 01:21:29,427
you hacked off Arlen's life?
1580
01:21:31,054 --> 01:21:34,641
To show the world
what a rebel genius you are.
1581
01:21:39,312 --> 01:21:41,231
You live with that!
1582
01:21:53,910 --> 01:21:55,662
Drinking alone?
1583
01:21:57,163 --> 01:21:58,331
Preferably.
1584
01:21:59,541 --> 01:22:02,085
And what are you
up to these days?
1585
01:22:04,296 --> 01:22:06,339
You know, Hedda,
1586
01:22:06,423 --> 01:22:08,183
another one of these
and I just may tell you.
1587
01:22:08,216 --> 01:22:09,801
Oh, then I'm buying.
1588
01:22:10,594 --> 01:22:11,845
Usual. Same again.
1589
01:22:12,012 --> 01:22:13,263
BARTENDER: Yes, Miss Hopper.
1590
01:22:14,723 --> 01:22:17,100
Oh, come on,
I hear the rumors.
1591
01:22:19,060 --> 01:22:20,353
Show me you're
still in the game,
1592
01:22:20,437 --> 01:22:22,314
fighting the good fight.
1593
01:22:23,648 --> 01:22:25,525
(WHISPERS)
Come on, rub my face in it.
1594
01:22:25,609 --> 01:22:27,902
Whisper a movie
you've written in secret.
1595
01:22:27,986 --> 01:22:29,487
Maybe I've even heard of it.
1596
01:22:31,781 --> 01:22:33,116
Maybe you have.
1597
01:22:33,199 --> 01:22:36,119
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry...
I'm filming. It's crazy.
1598
01:22:36,202 --> 01:22:38,872
Buddy, do you know
Dalton Trumbo?
1599
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,587
Yes, I believe we have
worked together before.
1600
01:22:45,670 --> 01:22:47,172
What was it? Was it MGM?
1601
01:22:47,255 --> 01:22:49,633
A million years ago.
Nice to see you again, Buddy.
1602
01:22:50,884 --> 01:22:52,677
I hear your new
script's in trouble.
1603
01:22:52,761 --> 01:22:54,304
Maybe you should
hire Dalton.
1604
01:22:54,387 --> 01:22:55,430
He used to be pretty good,
1605
01:22:55,513 --> 01:22:57,682
and price-wise,
he'd be bargain basement.
1606
01:22:57,766 --> 01:23:01,227
Not that you'd ever do it.
Not after Buddy named names.
1607
01:23:03,188 --> 01:23:05,690
Oh, you didn't know?
1608
01:23:05,774 --> 01:23:07,901
Word was he had hired someone
he shouldn't have.
1609
01:23:07,984 --> 01:23:10,987
So he got subpoenaed.
He had to testify.
1610
01:23:11,071 --> 01:23:13,657
Closed session. No press.
Makes it easier.
1611
01:23:13,740 --> 01:23:15,659
So, he named you, of course.
1612
01:23:17,285 --> 01:23:20,038
Now he's been cleared.
Gets to make his movie.
1613
01:23:20,121 --> 01:23:22,707
(CHUCKLES)
In a way, thanks to you.
1614
01:23:27,962 --> 01:23:31,341
Drink, Buddy?
You look as if you need one.
1615
01:23:32,092 --> 01:23:33,968
NIKI: Can you believe it?
1616
01:23:34,052 --> 01:23:36,680
Democrats voting
for segregation.
1617
01:23:36,763 --> 01:23:38,848
Oh, the Southern
Dixie-crats.
1618
01:23:38,932 --> 01:23:41,309
We started a petition
for total integration.
1619
01:23:41,393 --> 01:23:42,477
There it is.
1620
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:44,020
I already have
over 1,000 signatures.
1621
01:23:44,104 --> 01:23:47,857
Well, I'd be happy
to make it 1,001.
1622
01:23:47,941 --> 01:23:49,776
And this is the new draft
1623
01:23:49,859 --> 01:23:53,238
that needs to be delivered
to Hymie King in Agoura.
1624
01:23:54,531 --> 01:23:56,950
Wait, Agoura? I thought
the Kings were in Hollywood.
1625
01:23:57,033 --> 01:23:58,702
TRUMBO: Oh, no, no, no.
These are the rewrites.
1626
01:23:58,785 --> 01:23:59,911
They're to be shot tonight,
1627
01:23:59,994 --> 01:24:01,830
so Hymie needs them
on the set right away.
1628
01:24:01,913 --> 01:24:03,456
NIKI: Agoura's 40 miles.
1629
01:24:03,540 --> 01:24:05,625
TRUMBO: Yes, I'm sure
Chris knows that by now.
1630
01:24:05,709 --> 01:24:06,710
Well, he can't.
1631
01:24:08,378 --> 01:24:09,421
I'm sorry?
1632
01:24:09,504 --> 01:24:12,132
He has a date.
He's taking her to a movie.
1633
01:24:12,215 --> 01:24:17,178
Well, all right, then, Nikola,
you'll deliver the draft.
1634
01:24:17,262 --> 01:24:18,263
I have a protest.
1635
01:24:18,346 --> 01:24:20,765
Since when do protests
have hard start times?
1636
01:24:21,433 --> 01:24:22,434
I'll take it.
1637
01:24:22,559 --> 01:24:23,560
Nikola will take it.
1638
01:24:23,643 --> 01:24:25,437
I said I can't.
1639
01:24:25,562 --> 01:24:27,313
Young lady, you will.
1640
01:24:27,397 --> 01:24:28,481
This is important.
1641
01:24:28,606 --> 01:24:29,649
So is this.
1642
01:24:29,733 --> 01:24:31,317
NIKI: This is
important to me.
1643
01:24:31,401 --> 01:24:32,736
And the date's
important to Chris,
1644
01:24:32,819 --> 01:24:34,863
so figure something else out.
1645
01:24:44,330 --> 01:24:46,541
TRUMBO: Move on!
He needs those now!
1646
01:24:46,624 --> 01:24:48,001
(SIGHS)
1647
01:24:59,637 --> 01:25:01,347
Oh, honey...
1648
01:25:03,016 --> 01:25:04,684
She hasn't been
gone that long,
1649
01:25:04,809 --> 01:25:06,853
and it's really
not that late.
1650
01:25:10,190 --> 01:25:11,691
You know, this is
a blatant attempt
1651
01:25:11,775 --> 01:25:13,693
to manipulate worry.
1652
01:25:16,362 --> 01:25:17,614
(SIGHS)
1653
01:25:20,450 --> 01:25:23,119
Do you know when I realized
that I had to leave Hal?
1654
01:25:23,203 --> 01:25:25,371
Hal? Hal who?
1655
01:25:25,455 --> 01:25:27,123
My first husband Hal.
1656
01:25:27,207 --> 01:25:29,334
Jesus, take the wheel!
1657
01:25:31,377 --> 01:25:32,879
It was my wedding night.
1658
01:25:34,005 --> 01:25:36,216
My first
wedding night with Hal.
1659
01:25:36,299 --> 01:25:38,051
If we're going to
go back in time
1660
01:25:38,176 --> 01:25:39,469
to that unholy coupling,
1661
01:25:39,552 --> 01:25:42,639
then I have
a medical obligation to drink.
1662
01:25:43,056 --> 01:25:45,683
I saw this was not a man
I could have children with.
1663
01:25:46,017 --> 01:25:47,644
TRUMBO: Now,
thank God for that.
1664
01:25:47,727 --> 01:25:51,397
He'd bully me and them.
1665
01:25:51,523 --> 01:25:52,482
And that we'd wind up like
1666
01:25:52,565 --> 01:25:54,734
every miserable family
since forever.
1667
01:25:55,693 --> 01:25:56,903
But you...
1668
01:25:58,029 --> 01:26:01,074
I knew you would
never be like that.
1669
01:26:01,199 --> 01:26:04,077
That whatever
happened out there,
1670
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:05,328
all that would matter,
1671
01:26:05,411 --> 01:26:08,331
really matter, was us.
1672
01:26:08,414 --> 01:26:10,208
Well, all that
matters is us.
1673
01:26:10,333 --> 01:26:12,085
No.
1674
01:26:13,503 --> 01:26:14,504
Not anymore.
1675
01:26:14,629 --> 01:26:15,672
Well...
1676
01:26:17,090 --> 01:26:19,259
You have no idea
what you could lose.
1677
01:26:19,342 --> 01:26:20,593
Oh, please!
1678
01:26:20,677 --> 01:26:22,762
My career
1679
01:26:22,887 --> 01:26:24,931
and the First Amendment,
our country.
1680
01:26:25,014 --> 01:26:26,140
Am I missing anything?
1681
01:26:26,266 --> 01:26:27,433
Us.
1682
01:26:27,517 --> 01:26:30,019
You're losing us.
Oh.
1683
01:26:30,103 --> 01:26:34,691
Since prison,
you don't talk or ask.
1684
01:26:34,774 --> 01:26:36,776
You just snap and bark.
1685
01:26:36,901 --> 01:26:38,027
I keep waiting
for you to start
1686
01:26:38,111 --> 01:26:39,863
pounding the dinner table
with a gavel.
1687
01:26:39,946 --> 01:26:44,033
So in addition to being
a pariah out in the world,
1688
01:26:44,117 --> 01:26:47,662
I also have the supreme joy
of battling insurrection
1689
01:26:47,787 --> 01:26:49,706
in my own home where these...
Battling insurrection?
1690
01:26:49,789 --> 01:26:51,207
...ten fingers literally
1691
01:26:51,291 --> 01:26:53,459
clothe and feed
and shelter us.
1692
01:26:53,585 --> 01:26:55,795
This isn't
just happening to you!
1693
01:26:55,920 --> 01:26:57,714
We all hurt!
1694
01:26:57,797 --> 01:27:00,967
Niki, me, your friends!
1695
01:27:01,092 --> 01:27:03,219
Friends? What friends?
1696
01:27:03,303 --> 01:27:06,222
Who the hell has
the luxury of friends?
1697
01:27:06,306 --> 01:27:08,474
I've got allies and enemies.
1698
01:27:08,558 --> 01:27:10,226
There's no room
for anything else.
1699
01:27:10,310 --> 01:27:11,394
We know.
1700
01:27:12,812 --> 01:27:13,813
Good.
1701
01:27:13,938 --> 01:27:16,649
Then this discussion ends.
1702
01:27:17,942 --> 01:27:21,237
This isn't a discussion.
It's a fight.
1703
01:27:22,989 --> 01:27:26,326
I will not let our children
be raised by a bully.
1704
01:27:43,468 --> 01:27:44,469
NIKI: Be back.
1705
01:27:44,594 --> 01:27:45,595
BOY: All right.
1706
01:27:56,648 --> 01:27:58,448
I didn't want to fight
in front of my friends,
1707
01:27:59,317 --> 01:28:00,985
but I'm not going home.
1708
01:28:02,195 --> 01:28:03,947
I didn't come here to fight.
1709
01:28:09,202 --> 01:28:13,456
You know, your mother
is a quiet person.
1710
01:28:13,539 --> 01:28:14,540
Normally.
1711
01:28:15,375 --> 01:28:16,542
The effect of which is that
1712
01:28:16,668 --> 01:28:19,712
she can actually
make me hear myself.
1713
01:28:19,796 --> 01:28:21,381
It's extraordinary.
1714
01:28:22,382 --> 01:28:26,678
Lately, it's not a sound
I like much.
1715
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:31,891
Mostly because
what I hear is just how...
1716
01:28:32,976 --> 01:28:36,229
How afraid I am.
1717
01:28:38,898 --> 01:28:43,069
Afraid that
I'm scarring you...
1718
01:28:43,194 --> 01:28:44,737
All of you.
1719
01:28:48,741 --> 01:28:53,246
And what if it's all
for nothing? What then?
1720
01:28:56,416 --> 01:29:01,421
Well, so, I fight.
1721
01:29:03,339 --> 01:29:05,925
It's all I know
how to do anymore.
1722
01:29:06,050 --> 01:29:07,760
Any... I mean, it's just...
1723
01:29:07,844 --> 01:29:11,889
Just rage at anyone
who gets in my way.
1724
01:29:14,267 --> 01:29:19,689
But you have never
been in my way, Nikola.
1725
01:29:19,772 --> 01:29:21,733
Not once.
1726
01:29:22,775 --> 01:29:25,403
It's crazy how mad
you make me.
1727
01:29:26,112 --> 01:29:27,113
(EXHALES)
1728
01:29:27,280 --> 01:29:30,533
Since all I ever wanted
was to be just like you.
1729
01:29:34,537 --> 01:29:38,791
Well, I'm afraid to say
that you've succeeded.
1730
01:29:41,419 --> 01:29:42,420
(TRUMBO CHUCKLING)
1731
01:29:43,129 --> 01:29:44,881
We know, okay?
1732
01:29:44,964 --> 01:29:47,800
It's a small town.
The gossip's always true.
1733
01:29:47,925 --> 01:29:50,720
Fire Dalton Trumbo
and the rest of them
1734
01:29:50,803 --> 01:29:53,222
or you got pickets,
headlines and boycotts.
1735
01:29:53,306 --> 01:29:55,266
We will put you
right out of business.
1736
01:29:55,808 --> 01:29:56,893
We?
1737
01:29:56,976 --> 01:29:58,144
The Motion Picture Alliance
1738
01:29:58,269 --> 01:30:01,314
for the Preservation
of American Ideals.
1739
01:30:01,397 --> 01:30:03,733
Me and Ronald Reagan,
Hedda Hopper,
1740
01:30:03,816 --> 01:30:06,319
guilds, studio heads,
John Wayne.
1741
01:30:06,444 --> 01:30:07,570
I love John Wayne.
1742
01:30:07,695 --> 01:30:08,821
Well, I'll introduce you.
1743
01:30:08,946 --> 01:30:10,490
You guys could do
a movie together.
1744
01:30:10,615 --> 01:30:12,742
Oh, gee,
that would be swell.
1745
01:30:12,825 --> 01:30:15,203
Except I don't think
1746
01:30:15,328 --> 01:30:16,928
you and me are gonna be pals.
Hey, Frank!
1747
01:30:16,954 --> 01:30:17,954
You wanna keep me
1748
01:30:17,997 --> 01:30:19,082
from hiring union?
Frank! Frank!
1749
01:30:19,165 --> 01:30:21,834
I'll go downtown, hire a bunch of winos
and hookers!
1750
01:30:22,502 --> 01:30:23,586
It doesn't matter!
1751
01:30:23,669 --> 01:30:25,463
I make garbage!
Frank!
1752
01:30:26,506 --> 01:30:29,133
You want to call me a pinko in the papers?
Do it!
1753
01:30:29,258 --> 01:30:32,136
None of the people that go to
my fucking movies can read! No, wait.
1754
01:30:34,597 --> 01:30:36,157
I am in this for the
money and the pussy
1755
01:30:36,182 --> 01:30:38,101
and they're both
falling off the trees.
1756
01:30:38,476 --> 01:30:40,019
(GRUNTS)
Take it away from me.
1757
01:30:40,103 --> 01:30:41,270
Go ahead. I won't sue you,
1758
01:30:41,354 --> 01:30:43,689
but this will be
the last fucking thing you see
1759
01:30:43,815 --> 01:30:45,274
before I beat you
to death with it.
1760
01:30:45,358 --> 01:30:46,359
Tiffany!
1761
01:30:46,442 --> 01:30:47,693
TIFFANY: Right here.
1762
01:30:49,112 --> 01:30:50,113
(GRUNTS)
1763
01:30:58,204 --> 01:30:59,205
(CHUCKLING)
1764
01:30:59,372 --> 01:31:00,623
Fuck you want?
1765
01:31:01,499 --> 01:31:03,626
Uh... Oh, uh...
1766
01:31:03,709 --> 01:31:05,461
New script.
FRANK: Oh, yeah?
1767
01:31:05,545 --> 01:31:09,882
Yes, it's a family picture.
1768
01:31:10,550 --> 01:31:12,218
Something I've been mulling.
1769
01:31:12,343 --> 01:31:14,971
It's the story
of a young Mexican boy
1770
01:31:15,054 --> 01:31:16,139
and his pet bull.
1771
01:31:16,556 --> 01:31:18,558
Sounds a little fruity.
What's it called?
1772
01:31:19,350 --> 01:31:22,979
The Brave One.
Oh, one problem though.
1773
01:31:23,062 --> 01:31:24,230
Expensive?
1774
01:31:24,397 --> 01:31:25,565
Worse.
1775
01:31:26,566 --> 01:31:28,151
It's good.
1776
01:31:38,244 --> 01:31:41,080
BOY: Olé! Olé!
1777
01:31:45,168 --> 01:31:49,088
Who told you?
What else did they say?
1778
01:31:52,592 --> 01:31:53,759
(SIGHS) Well...
1779
01:31:54,427 --> 01:31:57,555
You too.
And thank you, Frank.
1780
01:32:00,099 --> 01:32:01,350
What?
1781
01:32:03,603 --> 01:32:05,271
The Brave One
has been nominated
1782
01:32:05,396 --> 01:32:07,064
for an Academy Award.
1783
01:32:07,273 --> 01:32:08,733
(LAUGHING) Oh.
1784
01:32:11,277 --> 01:32:14,197
Really?
Yes, really!
1785
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:15,698
(BOTH LAUGHING)
1786
01:32:16,782 --> 01:32:18,534
That's crazy.
1787
01:32:19,076 --> 01:32:20,870
I don't know.
It's like Roman Holiday.
1788
01:32:20,953 --> 01:32:23,372
Oh, Hymie, this is nothing
like Roman Holiday.
1789
01:32:23,956 --> 01:32:26,959
Roman Holiday had a guy
with a name and a body
1790
01:32:27,084 --> 01:32:29,045
they could give the award to.
1791
01:32:29,128 --> 01:32:33,591
There is no Robert Rich.
Who gets the thing if it wins?
1792
01:32:34,383 --> 01:32:36,052
Well, maybe it won't.
1793
01:32:36,135 --> 01:32:38,721
I mean, it's not that good.
No offense.
1794
01:32:38,804 --> 01:32:40,223
None taken.
1795
01:32:40,306 --> 01:32:41,390
And now I'd like to say
1796
01:32:41,474 --> 01:32:42,558
two of the most
beautiful words
1797
01:32:42,642 --> 01:32:44,143
in the motion-picture
industry,
1798
01:32:44,268 --> 01:32:45,811
Deborah Kerr.
1799
01:32:46,646 --> 01:32:48,606
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
1800
01:32:51,984 --> 01:32:55,321
The nominations for Best
Motion Picture Story are,
1801
01:32:55,404 --> 01:32:57,323
Robert Rich for The Brave One,
1802
01:32:57,448 --> 01:32:59,992
Leo Katcher for
The Eddy Duchin Story,
1803
01:33:00,076 --> 01:33:02,745
Jean-Paul Sartre for
The Proud and the Beautiful,
1804
01:33:02,828 --> 01:33:05,915
and Cesare Zavattini for
Umberto D.
1805
01:33:05,998 --> 01:33:07,792
The envelope please.
1806
01:33:10,670 --> 01:33:12,255
The Brave One, Robert Rich!
1807
01:33:12,338 --> 01:33:13,339
(ALL CHEERING)
CHRIS: Dad!
1808
01:33:19,804 --> 01:33:21,013
MITZI: You won!
NIKI: Who's that guy?
1809
01:33:21,097 --> 01:33:22,515
Mr. Jesse Lasky Jr.,
1810
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:24,320
Vice President of the
screenwriter's branch
1811
01:33:24,350 --> 01:33:25,351
of the Writers Guild,
1812
01:33:25,434 --> 01:33:26,794
will accept the award
for Mr. Rich.
1813
01:33:27,186 --> 01:33:28,604
LASKY: On behalf
of Robert Rich
1814
01:33:28,688 --> 01:33:30,439
and his beautiful story,
1815
01:33:30,523 --> 01:33:31,857
thank you very much.
1816
01:33:31,941 --> 01:33:33,317
NIKI: So weird.
1817
01:33:36,696 --> 01:33:38,990
We can't find Mr. Rich anywhere.
He apparently...
1818
01:33:39,115 --> 01:33:41,200
Who the hell is Robert Rich?
1819
01:33:41,701 --> 01:33:43,035
I gotta go.
1820
01:33:43,119 --> 01:33:45,538
It had better not be
who they say.
1821
01:33:45,621 --> 01:33:47,039
Mr. Trumbo.
TRUMBO: Yes?
1822
01:33:47,164 --> 01:33:50,626
Are you Robert Rich?
Did you write The Brave One?
1823
01:33:52,378 --> 01:33:55,047
Well, you see, it's my policy
1824
01:33:55,131 --> 01:33:58,217
not to claim credit
for any one movie.
1825
01:33:58,342 --> 01:33:59,385
That way, it's possible
1826
01:33:59,468 --> 01:34:01,887
that I had something
to do with all of them.
1827
01:34:01,971 --> 01:34:03,973
Except the stinkers,
which were all written
1828
01:34:04,056 --> 01:34:05,641
by my enemies.
(MEN CHUCKLING)
1829
01:34:05,725 --> 01:34:07,893
What's your position
on the blacklist?
1830
01:34:08,394 --> 01:34:11,314
Well, on it.
1831
01:34:11,397 --> 01:34:13,566
Along with
thousands of others.
1832
01:34:13,649 --> 01:34:16,485
Are you using this
Robert Rich controversy
1833
01:34:16,569 --> 01:34:17,653
to try and end it?
1834
01:34:19,405 --> 01:34:23,492
See, The Brave One
is a nice little picture.
1835
01:34:23,576 --> 01:34:26,329
And if rumors
of my involvement
1836
01:34:26,412 --> 01:34:28,581
can help sell tickets,
well, then, good.
1837
01:34:28,664 --> 01:34:31,167
And if the
strange circumstances
1838
01:34:31,250 --> 01:34:34,920
of its authorship
raised a few questions,
1839
01:34:35,046 --> 01:34:36,422
well, even better.
(DOOR OPENING)
1840
01:34:36,547 --> 01:34:37,715
NIKI: Trumbo?
Yes?
1841
01:34:38,215 --> 01:34:40,217
Phone for you.
TRUMBO: Well, who is it?
1842
01:34:45,765 --> 01:34:48,100
(WHISPERS) Some crazy guy,
says he's Kirk Douglas.
1843
01:34:48,225 --> 01:34:51,937
Really? Huh.
Well, thank you, Nikola.
1844
01:35:04,075 --> 01:35:06,869
Niki? Kirk.
1845
01:35:08,913 --> 01:35:09,914
(KIRK CHUCKLING)
1846
01:35:10,915 --> 01:35:12,291
Kirk.
1847
01:35:12,458 --> 01:35:13,793
Dalton.
1848
01:35:13,918 --> 01:35:14,960
My apologies.
1849
01:35:15,044 --> 01:35:17,713
We've had more than our
share of crank calls lately.
1850
01:35:17,797 --> 01:35:19,557
(CHUCKLES) I can imagine.
Please have a seat.
1851
01:35:19,590 --> 01:35:20,633
May I get you a drink?
1852
01:35:20,758 --> 01:35:21,801
No. No thank you.
1853
01:35:21,884 --> 01:35:23,052
All right.
1854
01:35:26,472 --> 01:35:28,140
So?
I'm doing a new picture.
1855
01:35:28,933 --> 01:35:30,184
And I just got the script.
1856
01:35:30,309 --> 01:35:31,560
(SCOFFS)
1857
01:35:31,727 --> 01:35:34,146
That must be seven hours
of entertainment there.
1858
01:35:34,230 --> 01:35:35,564
Not a single page
is entertaining.
1859
01:35:35,648 --> 01:35:36,649
(TRUMBO CHUCKLES)
1860
01:35:36,816 --> 01:35:40,069
But there's a good story
in there somewhere.
1861
01:35:40,152 --> 01:35:44,490
About one man who tried
to take on the whole world.
1862
01:35:45,324 --> 01:35:49,829
Well, you've got me so far.
1863
01:35:49,954 --> 01:35:51,330
He was a slave
1864
01:35:51,414 --> 01:35:53,749
who led a revolt
against the Roman Empire.
1865
01:35:53,833 --> 01:35:54,834
TRUMBO: Hmm.
1866
01:35:56,168 --> 01:35:57,503
Now, what's the title?
1867
01:35:58,087 --> 01:35:59,922
Spartacus.
1868
01:36:00,005 --> 01:36:01,006
TRUMBO: No, no, no.
1869
01:36:01,132 --> 01:36:02,925
I can't tell you what
I'm working on now,
1870
01:36:03,008 --> 01:36:04,009
except to say that
1871
01:36:04,093 --> 01:36:06,762
the blacklist is
alive and well
1872
01:36:06,846 --> 01:36:08,514
and so is the black market.
1873
01:36:09,765 --> 01:36:12,184
Well, yes, you can
quote me on that.
1874
01:36:12,476 --> 01:36:14,520
(CHUCKLES) Seeing
my name in the papers
1875
01:36:14,645 --> 01:36:17,022
drives certain people
out of their minds.
1876
01:36:17,106 --> 01:36:18,691
Of course. Here he is.
1877
01:36:18,816 --> 01:36:20,276
Kirk.
Hedda.
1878
01:36:21,193 --> 01:36:23,612
I'd like you to meet
a friend of mine, Bob Stripling.
1879
01:36:23,696 --> 01:36:26,449
House Un-American
Activities Committee.
1880
01:36:26,532 --> 01:36:27,992
Mr. Douglas.
1881
01:36:29,034 --> 01:36:30,536
Mr. Stripling.
1882
01:36:37,376 --> 01:36:38,544
Drink?
1883
01:36:38,669 --> 01:36:39,837
No, thank you.
1884
01:36:41,005 --> 01:36:42,465
You said it was important.
1885
01:36:43,507 --> 01:36:46,177
Only if you hired
Dalton Trumbo.
1886
01:36:48,220 --> 01:36:49,555
Who I hire is my business.
1887
01:36:49,722 --> 01:36:51,056
STRIPLING: No, Mr. Douglas.
1888
01:36:52,224 --> 01:36:53,476
It's ours.
1889
01:36:54,059 --> 01:36:55,060
Why?
1890
01:36:55,186 --> 01:36:57,313
'Cause we have to keep
this country safe.
1891
01:36:57,396 --> 01:36:59,064
And how are you
doing that?
1892
01:36:59,148 --> 01:37:02,401
Well, why don't I show you
by putting you on the stand?
1893
01:37:03,152 --> 01:37:06,655
Hedda, is your friend
trying to scare me?
1894
01:37:06,739 --> 01:37:09,742
He's just trying to show you
the way things are.
1895
01:37:09,992 --> 01:37:12,495
Maybe I don't like
the way things are.
1896
01:37:13,329 --> 01:37:15,831
Kirk, we've known
each other a long time.
1897
01:37:15,915 --> 01:37:18,417
Since when did you become
such a bastard?
1898
01:37:19,585 --> 01:37:23,923
I was always a bastard.
You just never noticed.
1899
01:37:42,399 --> 01:37:43,400
(DOORBELL RINGING)
1900
01:37:45,778 --> 01:37:46,779
Yes?
1901
01:37:46,862 --> 01:37:50,115
I wish to see the man
who wrote this.
1902
01:37:50,199 --> 01:37:51,784
Please, come in.
1903
01:37:53,911 --> 01:37:55,079
Thank you.
1904
01:37:56,038 --> 01:37:57,039
(DOOR CLOSES)
1905
01:37:58,958 --> 01:38:00,960
I am Otto Preminger.
1906
01:38:03,295 --> 01:38:04,547
The director.
1907
01:38:05,923 --> 01:38:06,966
Forgive me, I...
1908
01:38:07,091 --> 01:38:10,719
I've just finished work
a few hours ago. I...
1909
01:38:10,803 --> 01:38:12,638
A copy of which I've read.
1910
01:38:12,721 --> 01:38:14,223
But how could...
1911
01:38:14,306 --> 01:38:16,600
I just had that delivered
this morning.
1912
01:38:17,268 --> 01:38:20,396
I am Otto Preminger,
the director.
1913
01:38:21,939 --> 01:38:23,315
Please.
1914
01:38:25,818 --> 01:38:27,570
(TRUMBO COUGHING)
1915
01:38:31,407 --> 01:38:33,576
Oh, yes, my youngest thinks
1916
01:38:33,659 --> 01:38:37,746
that I can end the suffering
of all broken birds.
1917
01:38:37,830 --> 01:38:40,457
As can I, with a broiler.
1918
01:38:43,752 --> 01:38:47,172
Are your duties completed
for Mr. Kirk Douglas?
1919
01:38:48,173 --> 01:38:52,595
No, but I do have
two weeks off for Christmas.
1920
01:38:52,678 --> 01:38:56,181
During which time
you will work with me.
1921
01:38:56,307 --> 01:38:57,349
Will I?
1922
01:38:58,183 --> 01:39:01,103
If you're as intelligent
as your writing.
1923
01:39:01,186 --> 01:39:03,814
And as greedy
as your reputation.
1924
01:39:04,940 --> 01:39:05,941
Hmm.
1925
01:39:06,025 --> 01:39:08,277
It is an adaptation
of the novel Exodus.
1926
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:09,445
You've read it?
1927
01:39:09,528 --> 01:39:10,863
No.
1928
01:39:11,030 --> 01:39:12,364
A colossal bestseller.
1929
01:39:13,282 --> 01:39:15,659
Very nearly
a perfect piece of shit.
1930
01:39:16,118 --> 01:39:20,122
But there's a good story
in there somewhere.
1931
01:39:22,041 --> 01:39:24,877
I have no idea.
1932
01:39:25,002 --> 01:39:27,212
But I have Paul Newman.
1933
01:39:27,338 --> 01:39:31,133
We have spoken.
He is a little reticent,
1934
01:39:31,216 --> 01:39:33,052
but I believe,
at the right price,
1935
01:39:33,177 --> 01:39:34,219
he will accept.
1936
01:39:34,303 --> 01:39:35,971
So you're doing it?
1937
01:39:36,847 --> 01:39:40,392
Well, I think it's the only
way to get him to leave.
1938
01:39:40,517 --> 01:39:41,717
PREMINGER:
It's very important.
1939
01:39:43,228 --> 01:39:44,897
CLEO: Poor Mr. Preminger.
1940
01:39:44,980 --> 01:39:47,483
He thinks he's the cat
and you're the mouse.
1941
01:39:47,566 --> 01:39:48,567
(CHUCKLES)
1942
01:39:50,736 --> 01:39:52,488
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)
1943
01:40:02,915 --> 01:40:04,667
Oh, look at that. Perfect.
1944
01:40:04,750 --> 01:40:06,335
CLEO: Hey, Mitzi, what's that?
A Russian doll?
1945
01:40:06,418 --> 01:40:07,419
(CLEO CHUCKLES)
1946
01:40:07,544 --> 01:40:08,624
TRUMBO: Absolutely perfect.
1947
01:40:08,671 --> 01:40:10,756
Oh! What is this, Santa?
1948
01:40:10,839 --> 01:40:13,759
Just a little something
for Mrs. Claus.
1949
01:40:13,884 --> 01:40:15,094
CLEO: I'll open it later.
1950
01:40:15,177 --> 01:40:16,261
Christmas is over.
1951
01:40:19,014 --> 01:40:20,182
TRUMBO: Well...
1952
01:40:21,725 --> 01:40:23,268
Did you read the new scenes?
1953
01:40:23,352 --> 01:40:26,522
Dreadful. Keep up
this level of work,
1954
01:40:26,605 --> 01:40:29,608
and I will see to it
your name is on my movie.
1955
01:40:30,442 --> 01:40:31,944
To take the blame.
1956
01:40:40,077 --> 01:40:42,705
Well, there you go.
1957
01:40:46,250 --> 01:40:47,418
(BIRD CHIRPING)
1958
01:40:47,710 --> 01:40:51,130
Ooh! Hello. Hi, Sammy.
1959
01:40:51,296 --> 01:40:52,881
Oh, do you know that
1960
01:40:52,965 --> 01:40:55,050
Kirk Douglas
gave me this bird?
1961
01:40:55,134 --> 01:40:57,136
It's a distraction.
1962
01:40:57,261 --> 01:40:59,221
No. No, not at all.
1963
01:40:59,304 --> 01:41:02,558
I named him Sam Jackson.
1964
01:41:02,641 --> 01:41:03,976
He wrote Spartacus.
1965
01:41:07,062 --> 01:41:08,313
Well?
1966
01:41:10,149 --> 01:41:11,817
Better.
Thank God.
1967
01:41:11,900 --> 01:41:15,404
But it simply lacks genius.
1968
01:41:16,488 --> 01:41:20,576
Otto, if every scene
is brilliant,
1969
01:41:20,659 --> 01:41:23,829
your movie is going to be
utterly monotonous.
1970
01:41:24,329 --> 01:41:26,498
I'll tell you what.
1971
01:41:26,623 --> 01:41:30,669
You write every
scene brilliantly,
1972
01:41:30,753 --> 01:41:33,505
and I will direct unevenly.
1973
01:41:35,007 --> 01:41:36,425
(CHUCKLING)
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1974
01:41:36,508 --> 01:41:37,509
What is it, dear?
1975
01:41:40,345 --> 01:41:41,764
KIRK: Thank you.
1976
01:41:41,847 --> 01:41:43,348
TRUMBO: Oh, hello, Kirk.
1977
01:41:44,183 --> 01:41:46,268
Merry Christmas.
Thank you, Mitzi.
1978
01:41:46,351 --> 01:41:48,604
Otto. How are you?
1979
01:41:49,146 --> 01:41:51,148
I am very well, Kirk.
1980
01:41:52,149 --> 01:41:53,984
I, uh, didn't mean
to interrupt.
1981
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:58,447
No, no. No, not
at all. Not at all.
1982
01:41:58,530 --> 01:42:00,866
Otto, would you mind
if we had a little chat?
1983
01:42:00,991 --> 01:42:01,992
Won't be a second.
1984
01:42:07,539 --> 01:42:09,374
I sort of feel like
I walked in on my wife.
1985
01:42:09,500 --> 01:42:10,626
(TRUMBO CHUCKLES)
1986
01:42:10,709 --> 01:42:11,794
Do you love him?
1987
01:42:11,877 --> 01:42:13,879
Oh, it's far more
lurid than that.
1988
01:42:14,046 --> 01:42:16,173
He's paying me
for my services.
1989
01:42:17,007 --> 01:42:18,050
So am I.
1990
01:42:18,133 --> 01:42:21,553
And you'll get them again,
January 2nd, as promised.
1991
01:42:21,637 --> 01:42:24,389
I just need you a few days
on some of the new scenes.
1992
01:42:24,473 --> 01:42:27,309
Of course,
but not until the 2nd.
1993
01:42:28,227 --> 01:42:31,146
I wouldn't ask, but I've
never had a director
1994
01:42:31,230 --> 01:42:35,150
who's a bigger pain in my ass
than Stanley Kubrick.
1995
01:42:35,234 --> 01:42:37,736
The worst part is,
he's right.
1996
01:42:38,070 --> 01:42:39,071
(TRUMBO CHUCKLES)
1997
01:42:39,738 --> 01:42:42,658
Well, I wouldn't refuse,
but...
1998
01:42:45,410 --> 01:42:49,581
Well, I really...
This should remain between us.
1999
01:42:49,706 --> 01:42:51,166
Of course.
2000
01:42:51,291 --> 01:42:52,751
Well...
2001
01:42:53,585 --> 01:42:55,546
Preminger has
declared that...
2002
01:42:56,588 --> 01:42:58,590
Well, what he said was,
2003
01:42:58,715 --> 01:43:01,176
"You keep up
this level of work,
2004
01:43:01,260 --> 01:43:05,180
"and I'll see to it that
your name is on my movie."
2005
01:43:05,764 --> 01:43:07,683
Really?
Oh, yes.
2006
01:43:07,766 --> 01:43:10,519
Those were his exact words.
2007
01:43:15,774 --> 01:43:17,234
KIRK: Be in touch.
2008
01:43:17,359 --> 01:43:18,777
TRUMBO: Very well.
2009
01:43:18,861 --> 01:43:20,070
Merry Christmas!
2010
01:43:20,195 --> 01:43:21,405
(CHUCKLES) You too.
2011
01:43:25,284 --> 01:43:27,953
I suppose
he wants you back.
2012
01:43:28,036 --> 01:43:30,622
Well, no. No, no. He...
2013
01:43:30,706 --> 01:43:35,502
He just stopped by
to talk about a screen credit.
2014
01:43:38,171 --> 01:43:39,965
On Spartacus?
2015
01:43:42,342 --> 01:43:46,221
Well, I really shouldn't
have said anything.
2016
01:43:46,305 --> 01:43:47,639
You understand.
2017
01:43:49,349 --> 01:43:52,519
MAN: Five minutes! Back in
five minutes, everybody!
2018
01:43:54,438 --> 01:43:55,647
MUHL: Kirk,
2019
01:43:56,607 --> 01:43:57,691
Hedda Hopper just told me
2020
01:43:57,774 --> 01:43:59,414
the American Legion
is going to boycott us
2021
01:43:59,484 --> 01:44:00,527
unless you get rid
of Trumbo.
2022
01:44:00,611 --> 01:44:02,905
Ed, he's not done
with the script.
2023
01:44:02,988 --> 01:44:04,388
His name will never
be on the thing.
2024
01:44:04,448 --> 01:44:05,908
What's anybody boycotting?
2025
01:44:05,991 --> 01:44:08,493
Kirk... Just a second.
Please. Please.
2026
01:44:08,577 --> 01:44:10,078
Just give me
five seconds, please.
2027
01:44:10,162 --> 01:44:12,497
Listen. Twenty
million Americans
2028
01:44:12,581 --> 01:44:14,082
are saying loud and clear,
2029
01:44:14,166 --> 01:44:16,418
they will never buy
a ticket to our movie
2030
01:44:16,501 --> 01:44:18,462
unless you fire one writer.
2031
01:44:19,087 --> 01:44:22,424
Here's 50! Pick one.
2032
01:44:43,362 --> 01:44:45,072
Mind if I stick my nose in?
2033
01:44:45,155 --> 01:44:46,281
Please.
2034
01:44:47,366 --> 01:44:51,995
He knows. He sees Kirk Douglas coming in
and out of here.
2035
01:44:52,079 --> 01:44:54,498
And Otto Preminger
and his Rolls.
2036
01:44:56,458 --> 01:44:59,670
He's an idiot.
But he's not stupid.
2037
01:45:00,045 --> 01:45:02,172
(CHUCKLES)
Has he called the FBI?
2038
01:45:02,255 --> 01:45:04,549
Congress?
2039
01:45:04,633 --> 01:45:07,052
No, because everything
they can do,
2040
01:45:07,135 --> 01:45:09,096
they've already done.
2041
01:45:09,179 --> 01:45:11,515
That Oscar belongs to you.
2042
01:45:13,308 --> 01:45:14,351
Get it!
2043
01:45:15,560 --> 01:45:20,899
My God!
You're nothing like me.
2044
01:45:20,983 --> 01:45:22,317
You're worse.
2045
01:45:22,401 --> 01:45:24,027
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
2046
01:45:29,116 --> 01:45:31,702
MAN: For the record,
you're Robert Rich?
2047
01:45:31,785 --> 01:45:32,786
I am.
2048
01:45:32,869 --> 01:45:34,329
I've been through
the whole list, Ed.
2049
01:45:34,413 --> 01:45:35,622
They're all hacks.
2050
01:45:35,706 --> 01:45:37,624
REPORTER: (ON TV) And you
wrote The Brave One?
2051
01:45:37,708 --> 01:45:38,917
I did.
2052
01:45:40,043 --> 01:45:41,044
Ed, let me call you back.
2053
01:45:41,128 --> 01:45:43,672
REPORTER:
Why come forward now?
2054
01:45:43,755 --> 01:45:46,466
Well, as someone who has been
thoroughly investigated
2055
01:45:46,550 --> 01:45:48,719
by the House Un-American
Activities Committee,
2056
01:45:48,802 --> 01:45:53,056
I started wondering,
why hasn't anyone taken
2057
01:45:53,140 --> 01:45:56,101
a good long look at them
2058
01:45:56,184 --> 01:45:58,603
and their work
in the movie industry?
2059
01:45:58,687 --> 01:46:03,108
You see, they were convened
to uncover enemy agents,
2060
01:46:04,151 --> 01:46:08,697
expose communist conspiracies
and write anti-sedition laws.
2061
01:46:08,780 --> 01:46:12,909
Well, here we are,
thousands of hours
2062
01:46:12,993 --> 01:46:15,746
and millions of dollars later.
2063
01:46:15,829 --> 01:46:19,291
Agents uncovered, zero.
2064
01:46:19,374 --> 01:46:23,920
Conspiracies exposed, zero.
Laws written, zero.
2065
01:46:24,588 --> 01:46:29,593
You see, all they do is deny
people their right to work.
2066
01:46:30,218 --> 01:46:32,095
And they can't even
get that right.
2067
01:46:32,596 --> 01:46:34,639
Academy Awards, two.
2068
01:46:36,725 --> 01:46:38,226
(LAUGHING)
2069
01:46:39,144 --> 01:46:40,437
REPORTER:
And how does that feel?
2070
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:41,938
To have so undermined
the blacklist
2071
01:46:42,022 --> 01:46:43,523
that it's almost a joke.
2072
01:46:43,607 --> 01:46:45,192
A joke?
2073
01:46:49,112 --> 01:46:54,618
I know the blacklist
that produced Robert Rich.
2074
01:46:54,701 --> 01:46:59,539
I've seen its horror
and cruelty.
2075
01:46:59,873 --> 01:47:02,000
A hideous waste of life
2076
01:47:02,084 --> 01:47:06,713
as I've walked in the
long line of its anonymous.
2077
01:47:07,756 --> 01:47:14,304
And I cannot invent one more
witticism about Robert Rich
2078
01:47:14,387 --> 01:47:17,557
or the Oscar he can't claim.
2079
01:47:19,643 --> 01:47:24,356
Because that small,
2080
01:47:24,981 --> 01:47:28,193
worthless golden statue
2081
01:47:28,944 --> 01:47:32,072
is covered with the
blood of my friends.
2082
01:47:38,954 --> 01:47:40,514
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
TRUMBO: I'll get it.
2083
01:47:42,457 --> 01:47:45,335
Hello? Oh, hello, Otto.
2084
01:47:45,418 --> 01:47:47,587
I've read your last draft.
2085
01:47:47,671 --> 01:47:48,880
What do you think?
2086
01:47:48,964 --> 01:47:54,094
My answer is on the front page
of today's New York Times.
2087
01:48:01,434 --> 01:48:03,436
You hated it that much?
2088
01:48:03,979 --> 01:48:06,857
Merry Christmas, Mr. Trumbo.
2089
01:48:12,612 --> 01:48:14,823
Ed, have a seat.
2090
01:48:23,874 --> 01:48:25,709
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
2091
01:48:35,594 --> 01:48:36,845
WOMAN 1: Well,
why doesn't he kill him?
2092
01:48:36,928 --> 01:48:38,430
WOMAN 2: Kill him.
2093
01:48:38,513 --> 01:48:39,723
WOMAN 1: Kill him!
2094
01:48:39,806 --> 01:48:41,183
MAN: Kill him, you imbecile!
WOMEN: Kill him!
2095
01:48:41,266 --> 01:48:42,267
MAN: Kill him!
2096
01:48:42,434 --> 01:48:43,685
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
2097
01:48:46,855 --> 01:48:49,191
Great. Great.
2098
01:48:49,274 --> 01:48:50,483
Marty, have them
put up the scene
2099
01:48:50,567 --> 01:48:51,610
with Varinia and Crassus.
2100
01:48:51,693 --> 01:48:52,777
MARTY: Yes, sir.
Thank you.
2101
01:48:52,861 --> 01:48:54,779
Listen, Kirk, I...
One second.
2102
01:48:54,863 --> 01:48:55,864
(ED CLEARS THROAT)
2103
01:49:00,368 --> 01:49:01,411
(KIRK CLEARS THROAT)
2104
01:49:01,494 --> 01:49:05,665
Warren, I'd like you to
put out a press release.
2105
01:49:05,749 --> 01:49:08,376
The screen...
One second, Warren.
2106
01:49:08,460 --> 01:49:11,755
What do you remember when
you think about Spartacus?
2107
01:49:15,300 --> 01:49:18,136
He was a man
who began all alone
2108
01:49:18,220 --> 01:49:19,387
like an animal.
2109
01:49:20,180 --> 01:49:21,598
Yet on the day he died,
2110
01:49:21,681 --> 01:49:23,183
thousands and thousands
2111
01:49:23,266 --> 01:49:25,060
would gladly
have died in his place.
2112
01:49:25,560 --> 01:49:26,603
(CHUCKLES)
2113
01:49:26,686 --> 01:49:29,356
What was he? Was he a god?
2114
01:49:30,815 --> 01:49:33,526
He wasn't a god.
2115
01:49:33,610 --> 01:49:37,280
He was simple man. A slave.
2116
01:49:41,243 --> 01:49:42,410
I loved him.
2117
01:49:43,370 --> 01:49:48,291
Warren, the press release
will say,
2118
01:49:48,375 --> 01:49:51,753
"The screenplay for Spartacus
was written by Dalton Trumbo."
2119
01:49:51,836 --> 01:49:52,837
Thank you.
2120
01:49:54,506 --> 01:49:57,676
Kirk, if you don't get
rid of Trumbo, I will.
2121
01:49:57,759 --> 01:50:01,388
And right after I quit,
you can reshoot all my scenes.
2122
01:50:01,471 --> 01:50:06,476
You see, Ed,
for better or worse,
2123
01:50:06,559 --> 01:50:08,603
I am Spartacus.
2124
01:50:08,812 --> 01:50:11,231
(APPLAUSE)
2125
01:50:12,857 --> 01:50:16,945
There's a picture coming out.
It's called Spartacus.
2126
01:50:17,028 --> 01:50:18,780
It's starring Kirk Douglas,
2127
01:50:18,863 --> 01:50:21,783
and it is written by
Dalton Trumbo.
2128
01:50:22,492 --> 01:50:23,535
(ALL BOOING)
2129
01:50:23,618 --> 01:50:26,121
If there is some
other writer's name on it,
2130
01:50:26,204 --> 01:50:27,872
don't believe it.
2131
01:50:27,956 --> 01:50:29,624
We're on to them.
2132
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:31,001
(ALL CHEERING)
2133
01:50:36,339 --> 01:50:38,425
Yes?
HEDDA: Now, listen, Ed.
2134
01:50:38,508 --> 01:50:40,760
We'll picket every theater
that movie is in
2135
01:50:40,844 --> 01:50:43,054
unless you pull
the prints tonight.
2136
01:50:43,138 --> 01:50:45,223
And you get that
traitor's name off it.
2137
01:50:45,307 --> 01:50:47,142
Hedda, you can't
put me in this position.
2138
01:50:47,225 --> 01:50:48,425
That's expensive
and pointless.
2139
01:50:48,476 --> 01:50:50,145
Then you can kiss
your movie, your studio
2140
01:50:50,228 --> 01:50:52,564
and your miserable ass
goodbye.
2141
01:50:52,647 --> 01:50:54,232
MAN: Hollywood
turns out in force
2142
01:50:54,316 --> 01:50:57,110
to hail Ul's new film
spectacle, Spartacus,
2143
01:50:57,193 --> 01:50:59,321
on the premier of the
$12-million picture,
2144
01:50:59,404 --> 01:51:00,572
in the film colony.
2145
01:51:00,655 --> 01:51:03,074
The protesters also showed up
to remind everyone
2146
01:51:03,158 --> 01:51:04,826
of the political controversy
2147
01:51:04,909 --> 01:51:07,120
surrounding the
making of this film.
2148
01:51:49,454 --> 01:51:50,455
(TRUMBO EXHALES)
2149
01:51:56,336 --> 01:51:59,089
(CLEO SOBBING)
2150
01:52:00,131 --> 01:52:01,299
Cleo?
2151
01:52:05,095 --> 01:52:06,888
What is it? What's wrong?
2152
01:52:07,013 --> 01:52:08,807
Oh...
2153
01:52:14,312 --> 01:52:15,397
(SNIFFLES)
2154
01:52:15,480 --> 01:52:19,150
It's over, isn't it?
2155
01:52:21,945 --> 01:52:23,488
Yes. Yes.
2156
01:52:23,613 --> 01:52:25,156
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
2157
01:52:27,575 --> 01:52:29,244
And we made it.
2158
01:52:33,873 --> 01:52:35,083
Yes.
2159
01:52:36,835 --> 01:52:39,129
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
2160
01:52:39,629 --> 01:52:42,257
NEWSCASTER: President Kennedy
enjoyed a rare evening off
2161
01:52:42,340 --> 01:52:46,261
attending the new
Kirk Douglas film, Spartacus.
2162
01:52:46,344 --> 01:52:49,931
We are here live, awaiting
the president's comments.
2163
01:52:51,141 --> 01:52:53,893
REPORTER: Mr. President,
Mr. President, Mr. President!
2164
01:52:53,977 --> 01:52:55,728
It's a very
controversial film.
2165
01:52:55,812 --> 01:52:57,355
What did you think?
2166
01:52:57,439 --> 01:53:00,191
Oh, I think
it's a fine picture,
2167
01:53:00,275 --> 01:53:02,569
and I think
it's going to be a big hit.
2168
01:53:02,652 --> 01:53:03,653
NEWSCASTER: The implication of
2169
01:53:03,736 --> 01:53:06,698
Kennedy's approval of
this film are wide ranging.
2170
01:53:06,781 --> 01:53:09,742
The novel was written
by a former communist.
2171
01:53:10,285 --> 01:53:13,079
The screenplay was adapted
by a former communist.
2172
01:53:13,329 --> 01:53:16,332
And this signifies the
blacklist may be over,
2173
01:53:16,416 --> 01:53:19,210
as Kirk Douglas
and Otto Preminger
2174
01:53:19,294 --> 01:53:22,839
have openly hired
and credited blacklisted writers.
2175
01:53:23,298 --> 01:53:28,553
This is a clear repudiation of a
decade-long fight by anti-communists...
2176
01:53:32,140 --> 01:53:33,766
MAN: This next award
is for the member
2177
01:53:33,850 --> 01:53:36,561
who has advanced the
literature of motion pictures.
2178
01:53:36,644 --> 01:53:39,522
Occasionally, there appears
among us a person
2179
01:53:39,731 --> 01:53:42,400
whose virtues are so manifest,
2180
01:53:42,484 --> 01:53:44,569
who so subordinates
his own ego
2181
01:53:44,652 --> 01:53:45,987
to the concerns of others,
2182
01:53:46,070 --> 01:53:48,114
who lives in such harmony
2183
01:53:48,198 --> 01:53:50,325
with all the standards
of the community,
2184
01:53:50,408 --> 01:53:53,411
that he is revered
and loved by everyone.
2185
01:53:53,495 --> 01:53:56,247
Such a man,
Dalton Trumbo is not.
2186
01:53:56,331 --> 01:53:57,874
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
(TRUMBO CHUCKLES)
2187
01:53:59,334 --> 01:54:01,211
It gives me great
pleasure to present
2188
01:54:01,294 --> 01:54:03,880
the Writers Guild of
America Laurel Award
2189
01:54:03,963 --> 01:54:05,715
to Dalton Trumbo.
2190
01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:13,723
MAN: Congratulations.
2191
01:54:13,806 --> 01:54:15,600
Thank you,
thank you very much.
2192
01:54:22,065 --> 01:54:23,691
Thank you,
thank you very much,
2193
01:54:23,775 --> 01:54:25,068
ladies and gentlemen.
2194
01:54:26,528 --> 01:54:33,076
Often, when I stand before
the film community,
2195
01:54:33,159 --> 01:54:35,954
there's an elephant
in the room.
2196
01:54:36,037 --> 01:54:37,539
Me.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
2197
01:54:37,622 --> 01:54:41,793
And I thought
I would address that.
2198
01:54:45,004 --> 01:54:50,343
The blacklist
was a time of evil.
2199
01:54:50,426 --> 01:54:54,222
And no one who survived it
2200
01:54:54,305 --> 01:54:57,684
came through
untouched by evil.
2201
01:54:59,686 --> 01:55:02,981
Caught in a situation
that had passed
2202
01:55:03,064 --> 01:55:06,526
beyond the control
of mere individuals.
2203
01:55:07,402 --> 01:55:10,863
Each person reacted
as his nature,
2204
01:55:10,947 --> 01:55:13,825
his needs, his convictions,
2205
01:55:13,908 --> 01:55:16,119
and his particular
circumstances
2206
01:55:16,202 --> 01:55:18,121
compelled him to.
2207
01:55:18,204 --> 01:55:20,707
It was a time of fear.
2208
01:55:22,166 --> 01:55:25,503
And no one was exempt.
2209
01:55:25,587 --> 01:55:31,259
Scores of people
lost their homes.
2210
01:55:31,884 --> 01:55:34,846
Their families disintegrated.
They lost!
2211
01:55:40,435 --> 01:55:42,145
And in some...
2212
01:55:46,691 --> 01:55:49,569
Some even lost their lives.
2213
01:55:53,656 --> 01:55:59,287
But when you look back
upon that dark time,
2214
01:55:59,370 --> 01:56:02,165
as I think you should
every now and then,
2215
01:56:03,333 --> 01:56:05,001
it will do you no good
2216
01:56:05,084 --> 01:56:10,715
to search
for heroes or villains.
2217
01:56:10,798 --> 01:56:12,508
There weren't any.
2218
01:56:13,635 --> 01:56:15,720
There were only victims.
2219
01:56:17,972 --> 01:56:21,351
Victims, because each of us
2220
01:56:21,434 --> 01:56:24,687
felt compelled to
say or do things
2221
01:56:24,771 --> 01:56:26,189
that we otherwise would not.
2222
01:56:27,982 --> 01:56:31,903
To deliver or receive wounds
2223
01:56:31,986 --> 01:56:36,074
which we truly
did not wish to exchange.
2224
01:56:38,368 --> 01:56:41,954
I look out to my family
sitting there,
2225
01:56:42,038 --> 01:56:46,918
and I realize
what I've put them through.
2226
01:56:48,836 --> 01:56:50,630
And it's unfair.
2227
01:56:52,632 --> 01:56:53,633
(CLICKS TONGUE)
2228
01:56:54,801 --> 01:57:01,641
My wife, who somehow
kept it all together,
2229
01:57:02,266 --> 01:57:04,227
amazes me.
2230
01:57:05,770 --> 01:57:10,441
And so what I say here tonight
2231
01:57:10,525 --> 01:57:13,069
is not intended
2232
01:57:13,152 --> 01:57:18,157
to be hurtful to anyone.
2233
01:57:20,159 --> 01:57:24,330
It is intended
to heal the hurt.
2234
01:57:26,541 --> 01:57:30,670
To repair the wounds which,
2235
01:57:30,753 --> 01:57:33,297
for years,
2236
01:57:33,381 --> 01:57:37,927
have been inflicted
upon each other.
2237
01:57:38,970 --> 01:57:43,057
And most egregiously,
upon ourselves.
2238
01:57:48,855 --> 01:57:51,649
Thank you. Thank you kindly.
2239
01:57:51,774 --> 01:57:54,110
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
2240
01:58:03,161 --> 01:58:04,829
(JAZZ SONG PLAYING)
2241
02:00:41,152 --> 02:00:43,613
INTERVIEWER:
If you receive the Oscar,
2242
02:00:43,696 --> 02:00:45,865
what do you intend
to do with it?
2243
02:00:45,948 --> 02:00:50,953
I have... I have a daughter,
13 years old.
2244
02:00:52,622 --> 02:00:56,542
I've been blacklisted
since she was three.
2245
02:00:56,626 --> 02:00:58,502
She's known the title
2246
02:00:58,586 --> 02:01:02,214
of every motion picture
I've written in this study.
2247
02:01:02,298 --> 02:01:05,843
And she's kept that title
secret till now.
2248
02:01:05,927 --> 02:01:08,137
A soldier.
2249
02:01:08,220 --> 02:01:11,182
When her friends say to her,
as children do,
2250
02:01:11,265 --> 02:01:14,602
"My father does so-and-so.
What does your father do?"
2251
02:01:14,685 --> 02:01:19,023
This has confronted her
with a very real problem.
2252
02:01:19,106 --> 02:01:20,426
It confronts her
with the problem,
2253
02:01:20,483 --> 02:01:22,777
and has since she was three,
2254
02:01:22,860 --> 02:01:25,988
of who her father really is.
2255
02:01:26,072 --> 02:01:29,033
And what her father
really does.
2256
02:01:30,701 --> 02:01:34,163
I, uh, think
2257
02:01:34,246 --> 02:01:38,334
I will give this Oscar,
if I get it, to that girl.
2258
02:01:39,752 --> 02:01:42,296
I think I will tell her,
2259
02:01:42,380 --> 02:01:45,007
"Well, here is one secret
2260
02:01:45,091 --> 02:01:48,386
"you no longer need
to be burdened with."
2261
02:01:49,303 --> 02:01:54,141
I'll tell her we have
our names back again.