Book
High noon : the Hollywood blacklist and the making of an American classic
Publication Information
New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Physical Description
xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
The story behind the classic movie High Noon shares insights into the toxic political climate in which it was created, recounting how, during the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was interrogated and blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Contents
- The natural
- The elephant man
- The icon
- The boy wonder
- The committee
- The Viennese gentleman
- The falling star
- The committee returns
- The screenplay
- The informer
- Citizen Kane
- "Bombshells"
- The witness
- The exile
- The music men
- The process
- The movie
- Writer's block
- The return
- Epilogue.