An elite Hollywood screenwriter and Communist Party member who refuses to testify before the HUAC, leading to a prison sentence and a devastating Hollywood Blacklist. To survive, he writes pseudonymously, farms out work to blacklisted peers, and uses his family as staff. He secretly writes Spartacus and Exodus, eventually receiving public credit and helping break the Blacklist.
Shares professional persecution and financial destitution with Trumbo.
Former industry associate who severs ties for self-preservation.
Ideological adversaries representing opposing political stances in Hollywood.
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