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Written from the Hollywood Blacklist

A selection of films authored by writers during or directly adjacent to their time on the informal anti-Communist Party USA blacklist. 

(Note: focused on the era of 1947-1960, when the blacklist began, and ending with its de facto annulation with “Spartacus” in 1960)

  • Body and Soul
  • The Red House
  • The Lady from Shanghai
  • A Double Life
  • Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
  • Monsieur Verdoux
  • Force of Evil
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman
  • Rope
  • The Naked City
  • Caught
  • Adam's Rib
  • Home of the Brave
  • The Men
  • Young Man with a Horn
  • The Sound of Fury
  • Gun Crazy
  • Broken Arrow
  • Night and the City
  • He Ran All the Way
  • A Place in the Sun
  • The Big Night
  • The Prowler
  • The Marrying Kind
  • 5 Fingers
  • Pat and Mike
  • Limelight
  • High Noon
  • Give a Girl a Break
  • The Blue Gardenia
  • The Robe
  • Roman Holiday
  • The Actress
  • Salt of the Earth
  • Mr. Arkadin
  • Rififi
  • Lust for Life
  • Friendly Persuasion
  • Anastasia
  • Jailhouse Rock
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • A King in New York
  • Les Girls
  • Hell Drivers
  • Touch of Evil
  • Terror in a Texas Town
  • Cowboy
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Bonjour Tristesse
  • Odds Against Tomorrow
  • Exodus
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Spartacus