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Aug 22, 2008

Popcorn & Candy: Black for Red

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Trumbo While not necessarily a household name when it comes to American patriots, novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo earned the title. Caught squarely in the House Un-American Activities Committee’s crosshairs during the early days of the red scare, Trumbo was one of ten industry figures jailed for refusing to give testimony before the committee. At a…

 
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