The Hollywood Ten
| The Hollywood Ten | |
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| Directed by | John Berry |
| Written by | John Berry |
| Produced by | John Berry |
| Narrated by | Colin Chandler |
| Distributed by | The Criterion Collection |
Release date |
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Running time | 15 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting.
The film was directed by John Berry. After being named a communist by fellow director and former party member Edward Dmytryk,[1] one of the Hollywood Ten, and by ex-Communist Party member Frank Tuttle,[2] Berry was unable to find work again in Hollywood after 1951, and left for France.[3]
The documentary is available on the DVD releases of Spartacus[4] and Salt of the Earth.
Featuring
[edit]- Alvah Bessie
- Herbert J. Biberman
- Lester Cole
- Edward Dmytryk
- Ring Lardner Jr.
- John Howard Lawson
- Albert Maltz
- Samuel Ornitz
- Adrian Scott
- Dalton Trumbo
Release
[edit]The Hollywood Ten was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as a part of the "Carte Blanche" series.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Oliver, Myrna (December 1, 1999). "John Berry; Blacklisted Film Director Relocated Overseas". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ^ McBride, Joseph (1992). Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 597. ISBN 0-671-73494-6.
- ^ The Hollywood Ten on the Ironweed web site. Archived April 25, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Criterion Collection. Spartacus (1960). Accessed: June 28, 2013.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (1993-11-04). "Berry career inevitably comes back to the blacklist". Variety. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
Further reading
[edit]- Caballero, Raymond. McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
External links
[edit]- The Hollywood Ten at IMDb
- The Hollywood Ten bios at University of California, Berkeley, Library
- John Berry's obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Hollywood Ten trailer on YouTube
- The Hollywood Ten film on YouTube
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