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Red Hollywood

Red Hollywood

1996Video⏱️ 1h 58mNot Rated
DocumentaryHistory
7
IMDB Rating
255 votes

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically difference perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.

Director
N/A
Writers
Thom Andersen, Noël Burch
Stars
Paul Jarrico, Eric Johnston, Ring Lardner Jr.
Release Date
March 28, 2014
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 4
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

👤
Paul Jarrico
as Self
Eric Johnston
Eric Johnston
as Self - President, Motion Picture Association of America
👤
Ring Lardner Jr.
as Self
👤
John Howard Lawson
as Self
Alfred Lewis Levitt
Alfred Lewis Levitt
as Self
Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Polonsky
as Self
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
as Self
👤
Maya Stepien
as Self - Reader: Ayn Rand HUAC testimony
👤
Billy Woodberry
as Self - Narrator

💰 Box Office

$8,426
Worldwide Gross
$8,426
Domestic Gross
$4,760
Opening Weekend

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Black and White

🏷️ Keywords

hollywood tenred scarehollywood blacklisthuacfilmmaking

🎯 Categories

DocumentaryHistory

⭐ Featured Review

Left-Wing Themes in Hollywood Films 1935 - 1955
by don25072021-01-01
8/10

"Red Hollywood is an engrossing bit of both history and cinematic history that starts with progressive-leftist-themed films in the 1930s and WW II years, and ends with the reaction to those films, especially the filmmakers associated with them, during the so-called "Red Scare" of the late 40s and early 50s. It seems that many creative sorts in Hollywood, especially screenwriters but some directors as well, were radicalized by the economic turmoil of the Depression-era 1930s, and moved to the left , or moved further to the left, politically. Many became card-carrying communists and man..."

📖 Synopsis

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically difference perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.