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Courage
by James G (movies profile)
Jul 19, 2008
This is a story of courage and conviction, told against the McCarthy hearings, the anti-communist purges, and the hollywood black list. There is some archival footage and some interviews, but the bulk of the film consists of actors, reading from the letters of Dalton Trumbo, who, if you didn't know, was the most famous of the Hollywood 10 and responsible for such films as Johnny Got his Gun (1939), 30 Seconds over Tokyo (1944), Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus (1960), Spartacus (1960), etc. The writing of letters is now a lost art, but listening to his marvelous words, I was tempted to revive it. Especially appealing are the passages by Nathan Lane and Donald Sutherland, but all the performers do a great job. While you could say this is a film about Trumbo, it really is a film about how a family can stay together when everything is stacked against them, and how a man's courage ultimately wins out, but at a terrible cost. |
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