Daily Dialogue — November 29, 2015

“Fellas, I don’t recognize the right of this committee to ask me these kind of questions. And furthermore, you can all go fuck yourselves.”

— The Front (1976), written by Walter Bernstein

The Daily Dialogue theme for the month: Writers and Writing.

Trivia: Several people involved in this film were themselves on the McCarthy-era blacklists that it is about: director Martin Ritt; writer Walter Bernstein; and actors Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Lloyd Gough and Joshua Shelley.

Dialogue On Dialogue: If you feel like you could use an upgrade on the travesty which was The Hollywood Blacklist, you should check out this movie. For background, here is a 1950 piece featuring The Hollywood Ten, 9 of them screenwriters.

As I say, a terrible travesty.

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