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Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 1 of 9 OLLI: Spring 2013: Hollywood Blacklist: DVDs in Class Portable Library HB: Hollywood Blacklist connection: key: *: blacklisted; #: "friendly witness"; *#: blacklisted & later gave "friendly" testimony FILM YEAR DIRECTOR ACTORS PLOT / HB: BLACKLIST CONNECTION ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET 1948 Charles Barton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chnaey 2 hapless freight handlers encounter famous monsters; HB: Robert FRANKENSTEIN Jr., Bela Lugosi Lees*, Frederic I. Rinaldo* ALL THE KING'S MEN 1949 Robert Rossen Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Rise & fall of corrupt politician who makes his friends richer & Joanne Dru, Mercedes McCambridge retains power thru populist control; HB: Robert Rossen# AMERICA AMERICA 1963 Elia Kazan Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, Karam, Harry Davis, Estelle Hemsley dreams of going to America; HB: Elia Kazan# THE ASPHALT JUNGLE 1950 John Huston Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Major heist goes off as planned, then things start to unravel; HB: Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Marilyn Monroe Ben Maddow*#; Sterling Hayden#, Sam Jaffe*, Dorothy Tree* BACK TO BATAAN 1945 Edward Dmytryk John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah The US Army is helped in its defense of the Philippines by heroic Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo Filipinos; HB: Edward Dmytryk*#, Ben Barzman* BIG CITY 1937 Frank Borzage Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charles Proletarian solidarity featured in tale of Russian refugee Rainer Grapewin, Janet Beecher married to cab driver Tracy; HB: Hugo Butler* THE BIG KNIFE 1955 Robert Aldrich Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Successful Hollywood actor must make critical decisions regarding Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger his career & his morality; HB: Clifford Odets#, theme BLOCKADE 1938 William Dieterle Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo A Spanish peasant caught up in the Civil War falls for a Russian Carrillo, John Halliday spy's daughter; HB: John Howard Lawson* BOOMERANG! 1947 Elia Kazan Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. True story of prosecutor's attempt to prove innocence of man Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy accused of murder; HB: Elia Kazan#, Lee J. Cobb# THE BOSS 1956 Byron Haskin John Payne, William Bishop, Gloria True story of power-hungry politician who takes over city in the McGehee, Doe Avedon, Roy Roberts US with frightening results; HB: Dalton Trumbo* THE BRAVE ONE 1956 Irving Rapper Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elsa A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from Cårdenas, Carlos Navarro, Joi Lansing going against a celebrated matador; HB: Dalton Trumbo* THE BREAKING POINT 1950 Michael Curtiz John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Captain of a charter boat gets financially strapped & is drawn into Thaxter, Juano Hernandez illegal activities; HB: John Garfield* THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER 1957 David Lean William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack British colonel oversees construction of railway bridge at KWAI Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa Japanese PoW Camp; HB: Michael Wilson*, Carl Foreman* BRUTE FORCE 1947 Jules Dassin Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles In a tough penitentiary, a prisoner plans to rebel against the power- Bickford, Yvonne DeCarlo, Ann Blyth mad chief guard; HB: Jules Dassin*, Jeff Corey* CABIN IN THE SKY 1943 Vincente Minnelli Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" All-black musical about dying gambler whose soul becomes Anderson, Lena Horne battleground for 2nd chance; HB: Yip Harburg* CARNIVAL STORY 1954 Kurt Neumann Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex & Bettger, George Nader melodrama; HB: Dalton Trumbo* CASABLANCA 1942 Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, In unoccupied Africa during early days of WWII, American Paul Henreid, Claude Rains expatriate meets former lover; HB: Howard Koch* CASS TIMBERLANE 1947 George Sidney Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Story based on Sinclair Lewis book about judge who marries Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor woman from wrong side of tracks; HB: Donald Ogden Stewart* CAUGHT 1949 Max Ophuls James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, An innocent woman meets & marries a rich man & her world Robert Ryan, Frank Ferguson becomes a nightmare; HB: John Berry* Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 2 of 9 CHE! 1969 Richard Fleischer Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Bio-pic of life of Che Guevara, but its sympathetic screenplay was Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode eviscerated by producer Sy Bartlett; HB: Michael Wilson* THE CHILDREN'S HOUR 1961 William Wyler Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, A trouble-making student at an all-girls' school accuses 2 teachers James Garner, Miriam Hopkins of being lesbians; HB: Lillian Hellman* CITIZEN KANE 1941 Orson Welles Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy After death of a publishing tycoon, reporters look for meaning of Comingore, Agnes Moorehead his last word; HB: Dorothy Comingore*, Orson Welles CITY FOR CONQUEST 1940 Jean Negulesco James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Truck driver becomes a boxer & uses his winnings to support his Kennedy, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn brother's music career; HB: John Wexley* CLASH BY NIGHT 1952 Fritz Lang Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Cynical woman comes back to her hometown & marries, but she's Douglas, Marilyn Monroe got a roving eye; HB: Clifford Odets# CLAUDINE 1974 John Berry James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, Eric Harlem garbageman & single mother of 6 meet while she's working Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as a maid; HB: John Berry* CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY 1939 Anatole Litvak Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, An FBI agent investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the Francis Lederer, Dorothy Tree German-American Bund; HB: John Wexley*, Dorothy Tree* CORNERED 1945 Edward Dmytryk Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Morris Canadian flyer finds his wife has been murdered; HB:Edward Carnovsky, Luther Adler Dmytryk*#, Adrian Scott*, John Wexley*, Carnovsky*, Adler* CRACK-UP 1946 Irving Reis Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Art curator is in train wreck that seemingly never happened; is he Marshall, Ray CollinsWallace Ford cracking up? HB: Jack T. Gross*, Ben Bengal*, Ray Spencer* CRAIG'S WIFE 1936 Dorothy Arzner Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Domineering woman marries wealthy man, then uses her position Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wilson to gain money & power; HB: Edward Chodorov* CROSS CREEK 1983 Martin Ritt Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tries to "find herself" by moving Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard to the remote Florida backwoods; HB: Martin Ritt* CROSSFIRE 1947 Edward Dmytryk Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert A man is murdered apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out Ryan, Gloria Grahame of the army; HB: Edward Dmytryk*#, Adrian Scott* THE CRUCIBLE 1996 Nicholas Hytner Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul 17th-century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery; Scofield, Joan Allen based on play by Arthur Miller; HB: Arthur Miller CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY 1951 Zoltan Korda Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles In the back country of South Africa, a black minister journeys to Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen the city to search for his missing son; HB: John Howard Lawson* CYRANO DE BERGERAC 1950 Michael Gordon José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Rostan's swordsman-poet helps man woo woman he loves; HB: Prince, Morris Carnovsky Michael Gordon*#, Carl Foreman*, José Ferrer#, Carnovsky* DEADLINE AT DAWN 1946 Harold Clurman Susan Hayward, Bill Williams, Paul A sailor on leave appears to have killed a woman & has until dawn Lukas, Joseph Calleia, Osa Massen to find the real killer; HB: Adrian Scott*, Clifford Odets# THE DEFIANT ONES 1958 Stanley Kramer Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore 2 escaped convicts chained together, 1 black & 1 white, try to elude Bikel, Cara Williams, Lon Chaney Jr. capture; HB: Nathan E. Douglas (really Nedrick Young*) DESTINATION TOKYO 1943 Delmer Daves Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, During WWII, US submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay to put spy John Ridgely, Dane Clark team ashore; HB: Albert Maltz*, John Garfield* THE DEVIL DOLL 1936 Tod Browning Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Escaped Devil's Island convict uses miniaturized humans to get Frank Lawton revenge on those who framed him; HB: Guy Endore* DUST BE MY DESTINY 1939 Lewis Seiler John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Ex-con is back in jail on prison farm & falls in love with foreman's Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop daughter; HB: Robert Rossen# DYNAMITE 1929 Cecil B. DeMille Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles A socialite marries a condemned man for money, only to learn he's Bickford, Julia Faye, Joel McCrea been reprieved; HB: John Howard Lawson* Hollywood Blacklist: Spring 2013 DVDs 3 of 9 EARTH VS. THE FLYING 1956 Fred F. Sears Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald ET's in flying saucers have a plan to enslave inhabitants of the SAUCERS Curtis, Morris Ankrum earth; HB: Raymond T. Marcus (really Bernard Gordon*) EAST OF EDEN 1955 Elia Kazan James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie In WWI-era Salinas Valley, Cal competes with his brother Aron for Harris, Burl Ives, Jo Van Fleet their father's love; based on Steinbeck; HB: Elia Kazan# EDGE OF THE CITY 1957 Martin Ritt John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby An army deserter & a dock worker fight corrupt union racketerring Dee, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire on NYC docks; HB: Martin Ritt* EDWARD, MY SON 1949 George Cukor Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Capitalist Arnold Boult will do anything to ensure the success of Hunter,