Review: Trumbo
 

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Politics and popular culture collided as never before in the Hollywood blacklist era of the late 1940s and ?50s. Hysteria over the ?red menace? represented by Soviet-style communism led the U.S. Congress to establish the House Un-American Activities Committee, which interrogated members of the Hollywood creative community (and other industries) for alleged communist sympathies, requiring them to name others with ?questionable? political affiliations.?