I Am Spartacus! : Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist (Paperback)

from 5hrdrive

Until a few years ago I knew nothing about the "Blacklist" or the "Hollywood 10". The House Un-American Activities Committee had something to do with McCarthy and the "Red Scare", but what exactly I didn't have a clue. Then I saw the movie , Trumbo with Bryan Cranston and my eyes were opened. Tru...

from Jamie638

This is a fascinating look at the making of Spartacus, the sword-and-sandals epic film. Kirk Douglas was the producer and star, and was singlehandedly responsible breaking the infamous Hollywood blacklist by insisting that Dalton Trumbo write the screenplay. Trumbo was a famous screenwriter who h...

from arning

I'm doing my own personal Kirk Douglas film festival and I thought it would be interesting to read this book before watching the movie again. Spartacus is a movie that's on my personal top ten list. The first time I saw Spartacus, it was on a bad TV in crummy hotel room, because my family was tra...

from bg853

Kirk Douglas gives us a fascinating memoir on the making of an epic movie during the shameful era of Hollywood blacklists. Spartacus had some of the biggest stars of the day Kirk, Lawrence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis and Jeanne Simmons. Listening to the interplay among t...

from 5hrdrive

Until a few years ago I knew nothing about the "Blacklist" or the "Hollywood 10". The House Un-American Activities Committee had something to do with McCarthy and the "Red Scare", but what exactly I didn't have a clue. Then I saw the movie , Trumbo with Bryan Cranston and my eyes were opened. Tru...