The Hollywood Ten

The Hollywood Ten

Infobox Film
name = The Hollywood Ten


image_size =
caption = Promotional Image
director = John Berry
producer =
writer = John Berry
narrator =
starring = Herbert J. Biberman
Dalton Trumbo
music =
cinematography = Nicolas Hayer
editing =
distributor = Criterion Collection
released = 1950
runtime = 15 minutes
country = United States
language = English
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0172563

"The Hollywood Ten" (1950) is an American 16mm short documentary. In the short, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech to denounce McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklisting. [imdb title|id=0172563|title=The Hollywood Ten.]

The film was directed by John Berry. Berry was blacklisted upon the documentary's release, and unable to find work left for France. [ [http://www.ironweedfilms.com/films/hollywoodten "The Hollywood Ten"] on the "Ironweed" web site.]

The documentary can currently be seen on the DVD film releases of "Spartacus" and "Salt of the Earth".

Featuring

* Alvah Bessie
* Herbert J. Biberman
* Lester Cole
* Edward Dmytryk
* Ring Lardner Jr.
* John Howard Lawson
* Albert Maltz
* Samuel Ornitz
* Adrian Scott
* Dalton Trumbo

References

External links

*.
* [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/berry-obit.html John Berry] 's obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
* [http://www.mcpld.org/trumbo/WebPages/hollywoodten.htm The Hollywood Ten] at Dalton Trumbo web site.
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html The Hollywood Ten bios] at University of California, Berkeley, Library.


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