

15/01/1950
A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With that act of defiance, they were sentenced to one year in prison simply for speaking their minds and exercising their constitutional rights as concerned citizens. This is their story, their version of the facts, and their opinions.

J. Parnell Thomas
as Self

Albert Maltz
as Self

Lester Cole
as Self

Samuel Ornitz
as Self

Adrian Scott
as Self

Alvah Bessie
as Self

Edward Dmytryk
as Self

Ring Lardner, Jr.
as Self

John Howard Lawson
as Self

Herbert J. Biberman
as Self

Dalton Trumbo
as Self

Lauren Bacall
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Conte
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Humphrey Bogart
as
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