DVD
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- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- EASTWOOD: Audiovisual Collection
- OSHTEMO: Audiovisual Collection
Trumbo
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Languages
In English, with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Bryan Cranston, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Diane Lane, Michael Stuhlbarg, Helen Mirren, John Getz, David James Elliott, Alan Tudyk, Richard Portnow, Sean Bridgers, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Root.
Publication Information
Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; language including some sexual references.
Summary
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. Trumbo used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice of the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Otto Preminger.
Notes
Based on the book "Dalton Trumbo" by Bruce Cook.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.
Bonus features: Who is Trumbo? ; Bryan Cranston becomes Trumbo.
Subjects
- Screenwriters > Drama.
- Blacklisting of entertainers > Drama.
- Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century > Drama.
- Motion picture producers and directors > Drama.
- Motion picture actors and actresses > Drama.
- Communism > United States > History > 20th century > Drama.
- Nineteen forties > Drama.
- King Bros. Productions > Drama.
- Cook, Bruce, 1932-2003 > Film adaptations.
- Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976 > Drama.
- Hopper, Hedda, 1890-1966 > Drama.
- Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 > Drama.
- Wayne, John, 1907-1979 > Drama.
- Douglas, Kirk, 1916-2020 > Drama.
- Preminger, Otto > Drama.
- Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957 > Drama.
- King, Frank, 1913-1989 > Drama.