Trumbo [videorecording] / Samuel Goldwyn Films, Red Envelope Entertainment, Safehouse Pictures and Filbert Steps Production in association with Reno Productions picture ; produced by Will Battersby, Tory Tunnell, Alan Klingenstein, David Viola ; directed by Peter Askin
- Published:
- [Los Angeles, CA] : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2009]
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Additional Creators:
- Battersby, Will, Tunnell, Tory, Klingenstein, Alan, Viola, David, Askin, Peter, 1940-, Allen, Joan, 1956-, Dennehy, Brian, Douglas, Michael, 1944-, Giamatti, Paul, Lane, Nathan, 1956-, Lucas, Josh, Neeson, Liam, Strathairn, David, Sutherland, Donald, 1935-, Miller, Robert, Trumbo, Christopher, Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm), Red Envelope Entertainment (Firm), Safehouse Pictures (Firm), Filbert Steps Productions (Firm), Reno Productions (Firm), and Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- Summary:
- Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
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- Audience Notes:
- Rating: PG-13; for a sex-related commentary.
- Note:
- Documentary.
Title from container.
Based on the play by Christopher Trumbo.
Originally released in 2007. - Creation/Production Credits Note:
- Director of photography, Frank Prinzi ; editor, Kurt Engfehr ; music, Robert Miller.
- Participant/Performer Note:
- Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, Donald Sutherland.
- Technical Details:
- DVD, region 1, NTSC, Dolby Digital 5.1, widescreen presentation.
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