To the poster: Do you know who the woman is who is narrating? Her voice is familiar, but I can't place who she is, and it's driving me to distraction.
Ummm to all the idiots who are saying that this trial was a good idea- wtf, ever heard of Constitutional Rights? You can have any political affliations you want whether they be left wing, right wing or, yes, even Communist Party of America. Do some research- most of these men weren't commies at all, or if they were they left once Stalin's atrocities became known. McCarhyism was an excercise in totaliraian oppresson. How democratic is a country that bans movies/books it doesn't like??
@mrjosephyoung Have you actually invesigated McCathyism at all? Most of these men weren't Commies. Yes some were, but not all. Many were merely left wing. Most who were once Commies joined during the 1930s New Deal liberal era, when Stalin's atrocities weren't known and Communism was not considered evil, but ideolistic. Most left once Stalin's craziness and brutality became known. And that's besides the point- why can't you make pro-Communism's movie if you want? Freedom of speech.
@emochuu These scumbags were not on trial for being commies. They were on trial for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. People like Eli Kazan and John Steinbeck who went before the committee and told the truth did not go to jail.
@MSPEL You obviously didnt read my above comment. Why should they cooperate with a committee trying to root out liberalism, they have First Amendment rights to freedom of speech. You either said "Yes I was a commie, I was young and foolish" and nark on other "Communists" (basically you lie your way out of jail) and carry on with life, or you stood up for your beliefs. Ever heard of the Rosenbergs?? These guys had legitimate fears- they might be killed for being "spies".
@emochuu I did read your above comment. The Rosenburgs were executed because they were guilty of espionage and refused to cooperate with the U.S. in any way, shape or form. Steinbeck, Kazan, and others were not lying. Whitaker chambers, who by his own admission, was a commie spy, was given a deal because he gave a full disclosure of what he had done.
@MSPEL ~ And Kazan remained controversial for the rest of his life because of his cowardice. Since when, in this great nation, are we obliged to publicly reveal our political beliefs and affiliations?
@edwardjames50 Three fundamental and irrevocable rules of the universe- Marx was shit. Marxism is shit. Marxists are shit. People who defend Marxists are also shit.
sorry skunk traitors-they shpuld have been sent to russia to live(whom would not want or trust them cause anyone that betrays thier country has no respect)-these were shitbags types that lead communist revolutions-notice none were from the south
@playsetman Oh gosh. Were to begin. Don't you think what makes America better than say, Communist Russia, was individual freedom? Including freedom of expression? If some movie director who joined the Communist party as an 18 year old kid and left it a few years later, makes a movie with left wing sympathies, is he evil? Is he trying to destory the US? Isn't banning him from working EXACTLY what Stalin would have done? Isn't America better than that?
Your point? That Jews can't be communists or vice versa? And communist's aren't "UnAmerican." If we were we wouldn't be staying here working so hard on making our country better. The same shit is happening today except now with Democrats. Heh.
John Howard Lawson was a total Stalinist bastard until he died. I don't like hearings like HUAC either but these old Hollywood commies were agents of the Soviet Govt.
And you´re an frustrated Cuban idiot who´d like his country to be assfucked by the USA. Remember in whose hands your economy was until the revolution. I´m not a fan of Fidel Castro since he isn´t a communist but a despot. However, we´ll see how "free" you´re country will be when the USA take over Cuba. This group of leftist directors was a sign of idealism but profit is everything that counts in your "free world". As for stalinism, Stalin killed thousands of true communists.
Oh brother. I love how you claim you don't like those hearings but than promote what they said and claimed. LOL. So you just contradictied yourself. You're a moron.
Yes they were COMMIES including Lucille Ball and Lauren Bacall. This Documentary though is Hollywood propaganda. Look up Myran C Fagan's "Red Stars Over Hollywood" and you will get the complete story.
If they truly were than I say GOOD! They had thinking brains. No wonder rightwing freaks hate Hollywood. I betcha if Hollywood was doing what you wanted them to you'd love them. Too bad rightwing freaks have no creative imaginations etc.
I'm sorry you hate the Constitution hon. Maybe you should try living in places that don't have such a thing like China and than you'll appreciate what you have. You're doing the same shit as Joe McCarthy. No shame and you don't even see it.
according to your reasoning, you would allow Terrorists Cells to operate within the borders of the U.S. because it would be THIER RIGHT to assemble???
I guess you're calling the Constitution idiotic. You really should try reading that document before you go around and call others idiotic. As someone studying law enforcement I can tell you that you can't arrest someone for just assemblying since that's protected by the first amendment. They have to act first. Please try reading and studying the Constitution before you look like a moron especially calling someone else idiotic. But hey if you like looking like a fool than it's not my problem.
So, You believe a dirty bomb should go off FIRST or maybe a wide scale release of anthrax before you would act, or maybe a nuclear warhead before you would act. you know doubt have a position at the ACLU awaitng you.
Uh, hello..? America has destroyed Cuba and kept it as fucked up as possible for what, 50 years at least? Only Fidel and his brother are doing well over there and ybe some guys who can play baseball, don't be so hateful.
how did America Fuck up Cuba?? last time I checked South Florida (Miami) has become a safe haven for Cuban dissedants for the last 40 years to be exact. ever heard of the cuban district in Miami??
America loves the Cuban people....
America hates Dictators like Raul and Fidel Castro.
@n2motocross I don't know much about Cuba, but if you're interested in America fucking up Latin Amierca google 'Nicaragua' or get out a history book on the country. They had a deomcractically elected populist government that the CIA over threw, replacing them with unpopular landowners and elites who were more loyal Ameircan interests. Same deal in Panama re-the canal. Same deal Iran. Same deal Iraq. Gosh, the list continues.
To the poster: Do you know who the woman is who is narrating? Her voice is familiar, but I can't place who she is, and it's driving me to distraction.
edwardjames50 1 year ago
how do you crop a video from youtube if you didnt upload it yourself?
valandtweety 1 year ago
Ummm to all the idiots who are saying that this trial was a good idea- wtf, ever heard of Constitutional Rights? You can have any political affliations you want whether they be left wing, right wing or, yes, even Communist Party of America. Do some research- most of these men weren't commies at all, or if they were they left once Stalin's atrocities became known. McCarhyism was an excercise in totaliraian oppresson. How democratic is a country that bans movies/books it doesn't like??
emochuu 1 year ago 2
Bottom line: Trumbo and the others were Commies who pledged fealty to ole Uncle Joe Stalin and would have betrayed their country for "The Cause."
mrjosephyoung 2 years ago
@mrjosephyoung Have you actually invesigated McCathyism at all? Most of these men weren't Commies. Yes some were, but not all. Many were merely left wing. Most who were once Commies joined during the 1930s New Deal liberal era, when Stalin's atrocities weren't known and Communism was not considered evil, but ideolistic. Most left once Stalin's craziness and brutality became known. And that's besides the point- why can't you make pro-Communism's movie if you want? Freedom of speech.
emochuu 1 year ago
@emochuu These scumbags were not on trial for being commies. They were on trial for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. People like Eli Kazan and John Steinbeck who went before the committee and told the truth did not go to jail.
MSPEL 1 year ago
@MSPEL You obviously didnt read my above comment. Why should they cooperate with a committee trying to root out liberalism, they have First Amendment rights to freedom of speech. You either said "Yes I was a commie, I was young and foolish" and nark on other "Communists" (basically you lie your way out of jail) and carry on with life, or you stood up for your beliefs. Ever heard of the Rosenbergs?? These guys had legitimate fears- they might be killed for being "spies".
emochuu 1 year ago
@emochuu I did read your above comment. The Rosenburgs were executed because they were guilty of espionage and refused to cooperate with the U.S. in any way, shape or form. Steinbeck, Kazan, and others were not lying. Whitaker chambers, who by his own admission, was a commie spy, was given a deal because he gave a full disclosure of what he had done.
MSPEL 1 year ago
@MSPEL ~ And Kazan remained controversial for the rest of his life because of his cowardice. Since when, in this great nation, are we obliged to publicly reveal our political beliefs and affiliations?
edwardjames50 1 year ago
@edwardjames50 Three fundamental and irrevocable rules of the universe- Marx was shit. Marxism is shit. Marxists are shit. People who defend Marxists are also shit.
MSPEL 1 year ago
@MSPEL You should go to a doctor and have that bigotry removed. It's looking pretty bad.
LoganAZC 4 months ago
I'm doing a research project on the celebrities in the 1950's and how being blacklisted affected their careers...any good credible sites?
Ad0rkable37 2 years ago
go to google. check the preferences and use google scholar. then use that filter your search.
hillarymary 2 years ago
sorry skunk traitors-they shpuld have been sent to russia to live(whom would not want or trust them cause anyone that betrays thier country has no respect)-these were shitbags types that lead communist revolutions-notice none were from the south
playsetman 2 years ago
@playsetman Oh gosh. Were to begin. Don't you think what makes America better than say, Communist Russia, was individual freedom? Including freedom of expression? If some movie director who joined the Communist party as an 18 year old kid and left it a few years later, makes a movie with left wing sympathies, is he evil? Is he trying to destory the US? Isn't banning him from working EXACTLY what Stalin would have done? Isn't America better than that?
emochuu 1 year ago
Littlepinky, my sense is about 2% of the population has any familiarity with the Constitution, which is too bad because it is magnificent.
and moto does not hate the constitution, moto does not know anything about the constitution or HUAC.
It was written to protect us from people like moto, here who believes no one should be allowed to their own opinion.
Which moto has the right to feel, no matter how idiotic that may seem to us.
addie
addiefleur 3 years ago
9 out 10 were jews.
reziztanze 3 years ago
So were the Studio Moguls. Mayer, Thalberg, Goldwyn.....What does that have to do with anything.
jvarela965 3 years ago
Your point? That Jews can't be communists or vice versa? And communist's aren't "UnAmerican." If we were we wouldn't be staying here working so hard on making our country better. The same shit is happening today except now with Democrats. Heh.
LittlePinky82 3 years ago
John Howard Lawson was a total Stalinist bastard until he died. I don't like hearings like HUAC either but these old Hollywood commies were agents of the Soviet Govt.
jvarela965 3 years ago
And you´re an frustrated Cuban idiot who´d like his country to be assfucked by the USA. Remember in whose hands your economy was until the revolution. I´m not a fan of Fidel Castro since he isn´t a communist but a despot. However, we´ll see how "free" you´re country will be when the USA take over Cuba. This group of leftist directors was a sign of idealism but profit is everything that counts in your "free world". As for stalinism, Stalin killed thousands of true communists.
Neidhardt84 3 years ago
Oh brother. I love how you claim you don't like those hearings but than promote what they said and claimed. LOL. So you just contradictied yourself. You're a moron.
LittlePinky82 3 years ago
McCarthy had nothing to do with this. Your tag is wrong.
promontorium 3 years ago
Yes they were COMMIES including Lucille Ball and Lauren Bacall. This Documentary though is Hollywood propaganda. Look up Myran C Fagan's "Red Stars Over Hollywood" and you will get the complete story.
foxxx2001 3 years ago
If they truly were than I say GOOD! They had thinking brains. No wonder rightwing freaks hate Hollywood. I betcha if Hollywood was doing what you wanted them to you'd love them. Too bad rightwing freaks have no creative imaginations etc.
LittlePinky82 3 years ago
now they need to throw Alec Baldwin, Rosie ODonnell, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, and Danny Glover in prison.
n2motocross 3 years ago
For doing what you're doing? Perhaps you need to read that old Constitution sweetie.
LittlePinky82 3 years ago
also Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, Madonna, Al Franken..
LittleStinky82: big difference they are trying to destroy America. subversive cocksuckers.
n2motocross 3 years ago
I'm sorry you hate the Constitution hon. Maybe you should try living in places that don't have such a thing like China and than you'll appreciate what you have. You're doing the same shit as Joe McCarthy. No shame and you don't even see it.
LittlePinky82 3 years ago 2
LittlePinky82:
according to your reasoning, you would allow Terrorists Cells to operate within the borders of the U.S. because it would be THIER RIGHT to assemble???
......idiotic!
n2motocross 3 years ago
I guess you're calling the Constitution idiotic. You really should try reading that document before you go around and call others idiotic. As someone studying law enforcement I can tell you that you can't arrest someone for just assemblying since that's protected by the first amendment. They have to act first. Please try reading and studying the Constitution before you look like a moron especially calling someone else idiotic. But hey if you like looking like a fool than it's not my problem.
LittlePinky82 3 years ago
LittlePinkO 82:
So, You believe a dirty bomb should go off FIRST or maybe a wide scale release of anthrax before you would act, or maybe a nuclear warhead before you would act. you know doubt have a position at the ACLU awaitng you.
thats idiotic.
n2motocross 3 years ago
Uh, hello..? America has destroyed Cuba and kept it as fucked up as possible for what, 50 years at least? Only Fidel and his brother are doing well over there and ybe some guys who can play baseball, don't be so hateful.
addiefleur 3 years ago
addiefleur:
how did America Fuck up Cuba?? last time I checked South Florida (Miami) has become a safe haven for Cuban dissedants for the last 40 years to be exact. ever heard of the cuban district in Miami??
America loves the Cuban people....
America hates Dictators like Raul and Fidel Castro.
not hateful...... truthful.
n2motocross 3 years ago
@n2motocross I don't know much about Cuba, but if you're interested in America fucking up Latin Amierca google 'Nicaragua' or get out a history book on the country. They had a deomcractically elected populist government that the CIA over threw, replacing them with unpopular landowners and elites who were more loyal Ameircan interests. Same deal in Panama re-the canal. Same deal Iran. Same deal Iraq. Gosh, the list continues.
emochuu 1 year ago
@addiefleur You must not know much about Cuba if you think it's "fucked up".
LoganAZC 4 months ago
un American!
IBMeddling 4 years ago
soon it's going to be the "Un Americans" who pay for stuff with cash.
IBMeddling 4 years ago