Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel - Hanson, Peter

As a screenwriter, novelist and political activist, Dalton Trumbo stands among the key American literary figures of the 20th century. This survey, covering his screenwriting career, examines the scores of films on which Trumbo worked and explores the techniques that made him, at the time he was blacklisted in 1947, Hollywood's highest-paid writer.