1. What do you want, Rocco?
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3. To not die young, poor or alone.
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4. Manny...
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8. Hold it, Rocco.
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9. We don't fight these guys.
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10. Sure, maybe you get that...
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11. - Shit. God damn it.
- Cut!
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12. - Props!
- Cut.
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13. Sorry, everyone.
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14. - We're going again, Eddie.
- I don't know what happened.
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15. Sorry, Sam.
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18. What's my brilliant line, Trumbo?
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19. Oh! I've got it right here.
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20. "Hold it, Rocco. Now if...
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21. "sure, maybe you get that
long, happy life we all want."
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23. Well, peace on Earth.
Good will toward men.
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24. Well, you can't do that. This is America.
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26. There you go. Two things we all love.
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27. Well...
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28. One of your little sermons on citizenship.
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29. All right, going again.
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30. Mayer lined up the A Team.
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31. Sam Wood to shoot,
Dalton Trumbo for rewrites.
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34. You wouldn't work.
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36. What the hell do set builders
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37. What writers write, builders build.
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38. What they build, you shoot.
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you possibly can.
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40. So do I. Why shouldn't they?
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41. Listen to you, the swimming pool Soviet.
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42. Oh, for God's sakes, you won!
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43. Sam, the strike is over.
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being a gracious winner!
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45. You know, it's never over with you people!
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46. Strike after strike after strike!
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48. Whatever it takes to seek justice!
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49. Hey, you know what?
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50. - We've all...
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51. - Why don't we all take six months off?
- Oh, come on, Sam!
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52. - I'm gonna go on strike...
- Good for you.
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54. Sam, Sam...
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57. - Sam! Sam!
- You know what? You know what?
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60. Sam, Sam. We gotta talk about
those scenes tomorrow.
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61. Disaster. Who the hell wrote that crap?
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62. But, uh, first...
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63. - Whoa, whoa!
- May I have this dance?
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65. Having fun?
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66. Eternally.
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67. Miss Hopper.
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68. Dateline, Hollywood.
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69. The offices of top columnist Hedda Hopper.
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70. Greetings from our film capital,
where all is sun and fun.
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his dishy bride Lauren Bacall.
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73. All of whom have declared solidarity
with film crews picketing for higher wages
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75. Because these strikes were, in fact,
the work of dangerous radicals.
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star of Double Indemnity.
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82. - And why?
- ... and they reap all the profits.
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- No!
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85. Our elected leaders will find out.
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House Un-American Activities Committee.
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89. controlling the airwaves
and movie screens.
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and their unions.
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as the enemies they are.
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92. Communists, their goal: world domination.
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the overthrow of this nation.
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99. Yes, it was.
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100. Traitor.
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101. Oh, my God! Honey.
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102. No, I'm all right,
I'm all right. No harm done.
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105. - Dad?
- Mmm.
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108. Is that against the law?
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109. It is not.
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110. The lady with the big hat said
you were a dangerous radical.
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113. Dangerous. Only to men who fling Cokes.
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116. But anything good could be better,
don't you think?
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118. No.
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120. Well, why don't we give you
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123. Ham and cheese.
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with no lunch at all.
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126. Share.
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127. Share?
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128. Well, you don't tell them
to just go get a job?
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129. No.
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130. Oh. You offer them a loan at 6%.
Oh, that's very clever.
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131. Dad.
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133. No.
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134. Well, well.
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135. You little commie.
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136. Trumbo, as usual,
you only make sense to you.
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137. Now, let them call you
a communist, me a Democrat.
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138. They're both legitimate parties.
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139. Yours is just meaner and duller, but
there's nothing illegal about any of it.
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140. - Yet...
- Hunter.
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141. Tell your friend to dial down
the paranoia and have a drink.
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142. I don't think he's being paranoid enough.
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143. Not you too.
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144. You're out of ice.
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145. Now, I have taken the liberty
of drawing up a pamphlet.
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146. The subject: Congress unaware
of a little thing
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148. They're aware of it.
They just don't give a shit.
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nice new war of theirs.
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and this is a great one,
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151. 'cause it's vague and it's scary
and it's expensive.
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152. Anybody for it is a hero
and anybody against it is a traitor.
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153. Exactly, thank you.
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154. Arlen, not near the paintings.
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155. And if you think this is about
the movies, you're an idiot.
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156. Which is why I'm going to have
a little chat with the other side.
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157. You don't mean the Alliance, do you?
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158. I do.
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159. Are you out of your mind?
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160. Eddie, they're all actors
and writers and directors, just like us.
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161. They're Nazis. They're just too cheap
to buy the uniforms.
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and Hedda Hoppers?
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164. Please, let's not demonize
people we don't really know.
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166. And you know who you're gonna
be talking to there, don't you?
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167. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Wayne.
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about a place I love.
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171. And when we talk about America,
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172. The kind of freedom we just
fought a world war to save.
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173. You want to be a communist?
Go be a communist.
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174. But some friends of mine in Washington
think you got some questions to answer.
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177. - 'Cause he's not acting. That's him.
- ... go be one in Russia.
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the Bolshoi Ballet.
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179. Excuse me, sir, would you like to
read about the First Amendment?
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180. - Sir, a little education.
- You know your rights?
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181. Pamphlet on the First Amendment.
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182. - A little light reading.
- Travels well.
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183. Well, thank you, Sam.
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185. It costs money to print those.
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188. Dalton.
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189. Oh, Hedda. Good evening to you.
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190. Eddie, darling!
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191. Hedda.
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193. Ah, daily, darling, daily.
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197. Duke.
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- Not yet.
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200. Uh, would you like one, sir?
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anything they think is a threat.
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and that's the point.
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why we just won a war.
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in the Philippines.
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as if you personally won it,
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229. On a film set, shooting blanks,
wearing makeup.
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230. And if you're going to hit me,
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232. Thank you, Dalton. My next
column just wrote itself.
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233. It's a good thing you didn't
want to demonize anybody
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238. - Here you are.
- Thank you.
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240. Good God, she's everywhere.
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the highest-paid writer in Hollywood.
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the highest-paid writer in the world.
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at MGM. Right, L.B.?
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for you, but where do I sign?
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My job's not hard enough?
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three-year contract to make shit up.
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in show business?
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show forced-labor.
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- Brilliant!
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been issued to those we believe
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communist threat in Hollywood.
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the overthrow of this nation.
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289. Movies are the most powerful
influence ever created.
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with hidden traitors.
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Committee has been formed to investigate
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of newspapermen are on hand.
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Actors Guild are communists?
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more or less following the tactics
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with the Communist Party.
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298. And would you refer to them
as a disrupting influence?
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attempted to be a disruptive influence.
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they'd all be sent back to Russia
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to testify in three days.
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won't make us too popular.
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we'll most likely lose.
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a five-to-four liberal majority.
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you guys are talking about.
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she's gone with the kids.
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nobody gets their own lake.
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dull life, don't you think?
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all of this just to do the right thing.
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if I please to answer.
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none of your questions.
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a member of the Communist Party?
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- No, no, no, no, no, no.
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389. No, the chair will rule.
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- No, just a minute.
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a member of the Communist Party?
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404. You are dismissed, sir!
Witness is dismissed!
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to criminalize thought...
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a member of the Communist Party?
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419. Well, I'd like to answer you, Congressman,
but I need to consult with my physician.
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remove my conscience.
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434. It's lung cancer.
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435. Bad if you operate, bad if you don't.
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436. Well, is there anything I can do for you?
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437. No! No, it's cancer.
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438. Yeah, but...
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439. Jesus.
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440. You want to do something?
Make sure this plan works.
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441. I'm out of options.
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442. We were so young.
We thought we knew everything.
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443. We did.
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444. No, not me.
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445. No, I didn't realize how much
I loved it all
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446. until I reached a certain age,
and the roles started drying up.
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447. I remember thinking, "Now what do you do
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448. "when you love something
but it stops loving you back?"
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449. You fight.
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450. No, no, no. You love it more
until it surrenders.
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451. Hedda, you never left MGM or my heart.
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452. How's your boy?
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453. Fine. Fine.
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454. Still in the navy?
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455. Yes, he's First Lieutenant.
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456. You raised a real hero.
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457. Which is why I would like to tell him
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458. that we are doing as much
for this country as he is.
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459. It's complicated.
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460. Trumbo, the others, all have contracts.
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461. Oh, L.B., you helped build
this business as did I.
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462. We're not gonna watch
these pissants defile it.
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463. I'm running a studio here, Hedda.
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464. You think I love every person
on my payroll?
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465. Grow up.
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466. Then how about I make it crystal clear
to my 35 million readers
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467. exactly who runs Hollywood
and won't fire these traitors?
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468. How about I name names? Real names.
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469. Jacob Warner, Jack Warner.
Schmuel Gelbfisz, Sam Goldwyn.
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470. And of course, yours. Lazar Meir.
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471. You watch what you say to me!
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472. Forty years ago, you were
starving in some shtetl.
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473. The greatest country on Earth
takes you in, gives you wealth, power.
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474. But the second we need you,
you do nothing.
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475. And that's exactly what my readers expect
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476. from a business run by kikes.
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477. Get out!
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478. You know, L.B., I am fond of you.
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479. Some of my happiest years
were spent on this lot.
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480. Not in your office, of course.
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481. You were always trying
to fuck me on the couch.
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482. Me, trying to maintain my virtue...
Barely.
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483. But times change.
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484. Now I'd happily fuck you.
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485. All studios unanimously agree
to discharge the Hollywood Ten
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486. without compensation,
effective immediately.
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487. No studio will ever employ
a member of the Communist Party
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488. or anyone refusing to cooperate
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489. in our struggle
with this terrible new menace.
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490. He's been loved by film fans
for almost 20 years.
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491. But have you noticed he hasn't
been on-screen much lately?
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492. Bad box office?
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493. No. Bad politics.
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494. Bad news indeed
for Mr. Edward G. Robinson.
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495. Thank you so much for coming.
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496. The Hollywood Ten are going
to court for all of us.
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497. It'll be long, expensive,
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498. so please give as much as you
can to the defense fund.
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499. Thank you for coming.
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500. - Good night, my dear.
- Good luck.
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501. - Good night, sir. Thank you.
- Bye-bye.
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502. Well, this little gathering
didn't quite have
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503. the zip and zing of yesteryear, did it?
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504. Where are all the liberals
all of a sudden?
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505. At their lawyers' or psychiatrists'.
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506. Hmm, likely both.
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507. For the defense fund.
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508. Eddie...
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509. Have you been working?
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510. Eh. It's a bit slow.
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511. You sold one.
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512. Oh, the van Gogh.
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513. Got a good price.
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514. Eddie...
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515. Dear God, look at this.
Eddie, I can't let you do...
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516. I'll be fine, kid, take it.
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517. No, it's too much. It's just too much.
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518. Take it.
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519. Eddie, I...
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520. Everything that you have...
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521. What he's trying to say
is that he loves you.
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522. I love him too, the warty son of a bitch.
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523. Got a great offer on the Monet
if you want to bribe the jury.
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524. In the matter of the United States
v. Dalton Trumbo,
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525. we find the defendant guilty
of contempt of Congress.
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526. Mr. Trumbo! Mr. Trumbo!
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527. I'll meet you in the car.
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528. Mr. Trumbo, are you
in contempt of Congress?
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529. Well, I have total contempt
of this Congress.
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530. I just thought the jury would see why.
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531. The Supreme Court will drop kick
this verdict into speeding traffic
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532. and end the most shameful chapter
in Congressional history.
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533. Now, that's it, boys.
We have nothing else.
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534. No, we're done, we're done.
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535. How are you doing for money?
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536. Broke as a bankrupt's bastard. Why?
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537. Well, you owe me $30,000,
and this appeal's gonna be twice that.
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538. Well, I'd better get to work.
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539. Doing what? You have no talent
to do anything else.
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540. Hollywood fights back!
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541. This is Gregory Peck.
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542. A state of near hysteria
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543. over so-called communists in this country
threatens the freedom of other citizens.
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544. So the Un-American Committee
bears its tragic fruit.
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545. This is Lucille Ball.
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546. All of us agree that the Constitution
of the United States must be defended.
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547. But the way to do this is not by
shutting up the man you disagree with.
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548. You must fight for his right
to speak and be heard.
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549. All civil liberties go hand in hand.
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550. And when one goes,
the others are weakened.
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551. Just as a collapse
of one pillar in a house
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552. would endanger the whole structure.
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553. We'll send you home in a couple of days.
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554. Well, it sounds like you're going to live.
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555. Yeah, they got me just
well enough to go to prison.
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556. How do you feel?
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557. Breathing with one lung,
which is half as good as two.
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558. Look, Arlen, I heard about Dorothy.
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559. Yeah, she took off.
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560. Her timing was always amazing.
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561. I'm sorry.
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562. No, well, I know. I mean,
how could you leave all this?
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563. How's it going out there?
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564. Everyone envies you.
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565. Well, why wouldn't they?
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566. I got the best room in the joint.
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567. You should know. You paid for it.
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568. - Congratulations, Buddy.
- Thank you, fellas.
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569. Who needs the studios?
I am strictly independent.
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570. Got cans of film,
wads of Wall Street dough,
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571. and my favorite boss, me.
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572. - Cheers.
- Cheers.
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573. And you, you crazy son of a bitch,
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574. you're gonna write all of my movies
once this Washington crap clears up.
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575. And how will that happen?
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576. I'm not political, thank Jesus.
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577. If they called me in,
accused me, I'd just say,
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578. "Yup, did it. Sorry, didn't mean it."
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579. So Congress then asks,
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580. "Are you now or have you ever
been a Democrat?"
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581. I am and, God, I just feel awful about it.
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582. Then they want the names
of other Democrats.
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583. Bill and Earl, Nate, Tom.
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584. Then I say, "Go to hell."
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585. Really?
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586. How many banks fund enemies of the state?
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587. Your money's gone unless you give
the names of your friends here.
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588. They'll never work again,
but it's the only way you ever will.
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589. We all know each other, our families.
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590. We're friends.
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591. What would you do, Buddy?
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592. Only you.
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593. Piss on the best day of a guy's life.
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594. Only you!
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595. Christ's sakes.
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596. According to the protocol set forth...
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597. And what does she say?
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598. What does the princess say?
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599. Shit... Shit!
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600. Shouldn't be any likeness...
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601. It concerns me a little bit.
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602. Oh, good morning, Nikola.
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603. I thought you weren't allowed
to write anymore.
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604. Ah. No. No, just not allowed
to put my name on it,
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605. or get paid.
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606. How does that work?
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607. Not very well.
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608. It's funny. It's breezy and romantic.
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609. Who wrote it?
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610. You did, old boy.
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611. You stick your name on my labor,
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612. hand it in to your studio
and we're in business.
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613. Look, it is just dumb luck that I wasn't
subpoenaed and blacklisted myself.
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614. The hearings are going
to start up again soon.
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615. I'm going to get called and canned.
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616. Well, then quick, lad.
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617. Let's sell this little beauty
and split the take, 50-50.
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618. Ridiculous. I'll take 10%.
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619. You'll take 20. No, 30!
And that's my final offer.
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620. You're the worst businessman ever.
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621. Mmm.
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622. I hate the title.
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623. Me too.
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624. Really? What's wrong with it?
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625. - The Princess and the Peasant.
- Yes.
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626. God, please, Trumbo,
it sounds like a puppet show.
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627. Well, then, change it.
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628. I did.
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629. Really? You think this title's better?
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630. Roman Holiday.
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631. I like it.
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632. Who invited you?
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633. I did.
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634. She's my favorite Trumbo.
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635. I'm introducing legislation so in
the event of a national emergency,
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636. all communists will be sent
to internment camps.
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637. And the president supports this?
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638. He better.
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639. Parnell, I need to speak to you privately
about your employees.
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640. Excuse me, gentlemen.
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641. As I said, Bob, these are legitimate
salaried employees from my home state.
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642. What you didn't tell me is
that every one of them is a relative.
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643. Which is completely legal.
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644. Except that none of them pay taxes.
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645. Don't say anything else without a lawyer.
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646. - No.
- Mrs. Trumbo.
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647. Mrs. Trumbo! Hi.
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648. Jeff.
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649. Ma'am, I gotta get paid.
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650. Oh. I'm so sorry.
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651. I got men with families.
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652. My husband hasn't been able
to get any work.
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653. We owe everyone.
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654. - Ma'am, please.
- I'm so...
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655. Cleo, we're rich!
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656. There you are, Jeffrey.
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657. You people sure live exciting lives.
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658. Well, I thank you. Appreciate it.
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659. Thank you, Betty!
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660. We did it, Cleo!
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661. We sold Roman Holiday! Paramount.
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662. Our beloved Ian is just...
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663. Why, what's the matter?
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664. Judge Rutledge died.
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665. No, no, that was Judge Murphy
who died last month.
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666. And Rutledge.
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667. Last night.
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668. Mmm.
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669. Oh, now...
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670. Everything will be all right. You'll see.
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671. Without a liberal majority on the court,
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672. our appeal's gonna be denied.
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673. Meaning we should all be
prepared to go to prison.
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674. I wouldn't change anything going back.
Not one thing.
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675. Let's ask each other in a year.
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676. Will you do me a favor?
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677. Hold on to this while I'm gone.
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678. Thank you, dear.
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679. Your mother needs to laugh
at least once a day.
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680. Deal?
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681. Okay.
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682. Where's that little pumpkin seed?
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683. - To the Hollywood Ten!
- Thank you.
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684. To the Hollywood Ten!
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685. You're heroes!
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686. 28 cents. Gold lighter.
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687. Wallet. Cigarette case.
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688. Raise your hands.
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689. Open your mouth. Wider.
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690. Turn your head to the right. To the left.
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691. Tilt your head back.
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692. Spread your legs.
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693. Grab your sack and skin it back.
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694. Turn around.
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695. Spread your cheeks.
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696. Squat. Cough.
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697. Turn around.
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698. Move out.
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699. Next!
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700. So the warden says I gotta do right.
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701. Boy want a better job?
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702. I put him in charge of
the whole goddamn supply room.
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703. 'Cause I know something the warden don't.
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704. Truck's unloaded.
Driver needs a signature.
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705. Actually, uh, he needs it right here.
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706. You know, if, uh... If you need any help,
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707. I used to run shipping at a...
At a bakery.
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708. Heard you's a writer.
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709. Well, that too.
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710. And a commie.
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711. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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712. This is a great country.
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713. Agreed.
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714. You type?
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715. Stop.
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716. Well, now, if only I could read it.
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717. "Protocol as to return of goods.
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718. "There shall be triplicate
copies of Form 14-A filed
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719. "with Supply, Shipping
and Office of the Warden."
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720. You think you're gonna
teach me the alphabet
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721. and I'm gonna shake your hand
all grateful and say,
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722. "Thank you, Mr. Trumbo.
You done change my life, sir.
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723. "I'll never forget you."
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724. I got 20 years for killing me
a white man who tried to rob my bar.
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725. I did it and I'd do it again.
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726. You look down on me and I will fuck you
up like you've never been fucked up
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727. in your whole bullshit Beverly Hills life.
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728. Now I'm here trying to build
my time and make parole.
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729. You wanna help make that happen?
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730. Welcome to fucking Supply, Comrade.
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731. Dear Cleo, I don't
count the days or hours...
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732. I count the seconds.
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733. Sometimes I think I'll die
of boredom. Other times, fear.
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734. Not of this place.
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735. So far, its challenges
are all surmountable.
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736. Augmented by days of lovely boredom.
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737. So flat and calm in the wake
of all that churning
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738. ugly luckless battle.
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739. No, my fear is for what
will happen when I get out.
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740. To our family and our country.
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741. Not all the news is worrisome.
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742. Some reminds me that what the
imagination can't conjure
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743. reality delivers with a shrug.
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744. And reality has delivered
in all its beatific wonder
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745. to the federal penal system,
J. Parnell Thomas,
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746. convicted of tax evasion.
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747. Well, look at us.
Just a couple of jailbirds.
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748. Except you actually committed a crime.
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749. Yet in all this,
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750. I know I'm the luckiest
unlucky man ever to live,
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751. because you and the children warm, feed,
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752. clothe, pacify, and rejuvenate me
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753. by never leaving my heart.
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754. Love, Prisoner Number 7551.
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755. We're not gonna take that hill
from the Japs with bullets,
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756. bombs or fists.
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757. Yeah!
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758. We're gonna take it with blood.
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759. Whoever spills more, loses.
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760. And we don't lose.
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761. Do we?
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762. No!
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763. You lose.
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764. That's what I thought.
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765. You know John Wayne?
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766. I do.
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767. What's he like?
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768. You'd love each other.
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769. Isn't he beautiful? Okay.
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770. - Mom, I got a new one.
- Huh?
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771. Okay, wait.
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772. Come on, you're gonna scare the horse.
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773. Mom, you'd better come quick!
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774. Edward Robinson,
are you now or have you ever been
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775. a member of the Communist Party?
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776. I'm not now, sir, nor have I
ever been a member of that party.
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777. I have always been a Liberal Democrat.
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778. But in your home over the years,
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779. there have been political
meetings attended by those
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780. that we now know to be communists.
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781. Yes, sir. Yes, that has now
been made clear to me.
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782. There were tremendous activities
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783. - and fundraisers...
- Shit.
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784. that went on in my house
during the war.
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785. I did not know then
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786. all of their true affiliations
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787. or the work that they were up to.
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788. It never entered my mind that any
of these people were communists.
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789. I was duped and used. I was lied to.
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790. But who used you?
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791. Well, um...
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792. These sinister forces
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793. who probably ran these organizations.
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794. Oh, tell us the individuals
that you have reference to.
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795. Mr. Robinson?
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796. Well, uh, you had Albert Maltz.
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797. Um...
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798. I knew Frank Tuttle and that other fellow.
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799. That top fellow
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800. who they say is the, uh,
commissar out there. Um...
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801. Arlen Hird?
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802. Yes, yes, Arlen Hird.
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803. I didn't know Dmytryk at all.
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804. I'm a commissar now.
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805. Ian McLellan Hunter...
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806. and, uh, Dalton Trumbo.
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807. Thank you, Mr. Robinson.
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808. Thank you, sir.
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809. Mr. Chairman, I have no further questions.
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810. Snitch like that in here,
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811. you end up fucking dead.
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812. Eddie ought to go back to work.
He did what he had to.
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813. No, no, he did what he was forced to do.
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814. Well, the point is, he did it.
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815. Brave men and boys are fighting
this battle against communism.
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816. They are sacrificing in ways
we can't even imagine.
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817. And you wanna talk about some
asshole's movie career?
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818. I'd see Eddie Robinson
and everyone like him dead
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819. if it'd bring back one boy
from Korea. Just one.
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820. So what are you saying?
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821. Guys like Eddie cooperate and get nothing?
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822. That isn't right.
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823. Careful, Duke.
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824. Or what, Hedda?
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825. If I'm not careful, what?
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826. I had no idea you were such a softie.
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827. That's me all right. All cuddles.
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828. Proud of ya, Eddie.
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829. Wasn't easy, I know. But you did good.
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830. Thanks, Duke.
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831. I'm gonna call the studios.
The offers will pour in.
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832. Sure.
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833. Thanks.
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834. One of the greatest peacetime
spy dramas in the nation's history
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835. reaches its climax, as Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg are sentenced to death
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836. for revealing atomic secrets
to Soviet Russia.
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837. The junior senator from
Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy,
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838. is ramping up his investigation
into alleged communists he believes
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839. are infiltrating our government,
our military, and our schools.
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840. because the enemy has been able
to get the traitors and dupes
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841. to do his work within our government.
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842. One communist on the faculty
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843. of one university
is one communist too many.
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844. A man is either loyal or he's disloyal.
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845. Thank you, Billy.
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846. They're here! They're here! Dad!
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847. Dad! They're home!
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848. I'm being attacked by giants! Ah!
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849. What have you beautiful creatures
done with my little ones?
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850. Oh, Dad, we missed you.
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851. - Christopher. Mitzi.
- Hi, Dad.
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852. My goodness.
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853. Nikola, look at you.
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854. She got real tall.
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855. Oh, is that lipstick?
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856. Dad...
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857. Oh, I've missed you so much. All of you.
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858. Let's go inside. I wanna hear everything.
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859. Oh, I'm terribly sorry...
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860. Oh, Buddy! Well, how are you?
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861. I got nothing to say to you.
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862. Looks like prison has given us the plague.
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863. Yeah, well, that Buddy Ross,
he was always an asshole.
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864. Yeah.
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865. He's in trouble too.
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866. - Three movies, three flops.
- Oh, really?
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867. Mmm-hmm.
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868. Look at him. He's trying to sell his soul,
but he can't find it.
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869. I just hope he stays afloat long enough
to get the shit sued out of him.
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870. Oh, really? By whom?
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871. By me and you and all of us.
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872. Jeez...
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873. We use their capitalist system
against them...
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874. In civil court. We go after their money.
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875. - No. No. No.
- For what they did to us!
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876. We make them swear under oath...
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877. No, no, no. Christ!
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878. Haven't you spent enough time in court?
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879. I know I have. Jesus Christ.
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880. Well, what else are we supposed to do?
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881. We do the one thing
everyone says we can't.
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882. Look, you're a great writer. We make shit.
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883. I don't see it.
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884. Mr. King, I'm a screenwriter.
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885. If I couldn't write shit, I'd starve.
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886. Trumbo, we can't afford you.
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887. Well, how much did you pay
for the script of that?
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888. Bad Men of Tombstone
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889. $1,200.
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890. All right. I'll write you
a movie for $1,200, then.
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891. And you don't want your name on it?
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892. No, you don't want my name on it.
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893. You got that right.
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894. Especially if you're still,
you know, up to stuff.
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895. Are you?
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896. Perpetually.
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897. Jesus.
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898. You got any ideas?
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899. Well, I just got out of prison.
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900. What about crime?
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901. A story of a gangster, his rise and fall.
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902. I've seen that a few times.
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903. Because it always makes money.
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904. All right, when do I get my goods?
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905. Three days.
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906. A 100-page screenplay in three days?
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907. Are you trying to fuck me?
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908. 'Cause if you fuck me, I will fuck you.
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909. Mr. King, I've heard this speech.
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910. It was better in jail.
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911. "No, boss...
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912. "He..."
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913. Are you kidding me with this?
Hymie, get out here!
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914. Hymie, pay the man!
He's a genius. Beautiful.
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915. Wait a minute, look.
We got Killer in the Swamp.
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916. The best character's the swamp. Oh, oh.
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917. Women in Prison.
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918. Dames fighting in their underwear.
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919. It's perfect, except it stinks.
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920. What else, Hymie?
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921. Pirates. Can't afford the ocean.
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922. That's it.
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923. Fix them all.
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924. You want more, we got more. Oh, baby!
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925. So, what do you think
of the new neighborhood?
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926. - I like it.
- Yeah, this is nice.
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927. - Yeah, Dad.
- Well...
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928. It's gonna be good being in town.
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929. Whoa, look at that!
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930. - I brought you some lemonade.
- Thank you.
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931. Hard work. You holding up okay?
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932. - Pretty good.
- All right, thank you.
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933. We forgot the towels!
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934. Oh, shoot! Wait for me. Wait for me.
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935. Mitzi... Shh!
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936. Well, there are many angry
and ignorant people in the world.
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937. They seem to be breeding
in record numbers.
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938. Now, all we can do as a family
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939. is stick together and remain vigilant.
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940. The Mouth of Truth.
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941. Legend is that if you're given to lying,
and you put your hand in there,
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942. it'll be bitten off.
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943. Oh, what a horrid idea!
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944. Let's see you do it.
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945. Let's see you do it.
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946. Sure.
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947. Hello.
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948. You beast!
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949. It's a huge hit. Great reviews.
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950. I haven't worked in nine months. You?
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951. Well, there aren't quite enough zeros
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952. in a King Brothers' salary to survive,
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953. but they need scripts like
an army needs toilet paper.
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954. Quality minimum, quantity maximum.
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955. You'd think that when the artistic ambitions
of a movie are non-existent,
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956. the work would be tossed off in a week.
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957. But consistently pleasing
two former pinball salesmen
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958. turns out to be a high hurdle indeed.
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959. And I've become a stranger
in my own house.
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960. Every workweek is seven days.
Every day is 18 hours.
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961. Every minute, I'm further behind.
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962. They need five of you.
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963. Okay, the only question
is, can these pinkos write?
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964. Well, the dapper gentleman
in the gray suit
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965. is Ian McLellan Hunter.
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966. Guy who wrote Roman Holiday.
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967. Guy who just got subpoenaed.
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968. Guy who just got nominated
for an Academy Award.
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969. Everyone at that table's been nominated.
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970. There's Alvah Bessie,
and Adrian Scott. Arlen Hird.
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971. And Ring Lardner, Jr.
and Albert Maltz and...
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972. Um...
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973. It'll be like this.
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974. I'll find the writer and work with him.
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975. He'll deliver the script to me.
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976. If it's good, I'll give it to you.
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977. If it needs work, I'll fix it.
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978. No one gets paid until you're happy.
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979. And these writers, they're...
They're all...
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980. I mean, they're all black...
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981. Blacklisted.
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982. Jesus, you're such a chicken-shit.
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983. You know, we're at war
with the communists.
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984. - No we're not.
- It's a new kind of war.
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985. Yeah, if it doesn't exist, very new.
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986. What about the Rosenbergs?
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987. They stole the atom bomb.
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988. They didn't steal it off
a fucking camera truck.
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989. So look, we bought a gorilla suit.
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990. We gotta use it.
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991. Oh.
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992. Well.
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993. So, you had five jobs.
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994. Mmm-hmm.
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995. And now we got them and now you got none?
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996. Oh, now I'm free to get five
more jobs and five more writers.
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997. And you each get five more jobs
and five more writers and so on.
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998. To keep that going, we'd have
to write every script in the business.
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999. Oh, Arlen, what a devious lad.
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1000. So who wants to write a gorilla movie?
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1001. Who doesn't?
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1002. We now work at midnight
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1003. in thick fog among strangers.
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1004. Not literally.
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1005. We're running a family business.
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1006. We'll be adding new phone lines,
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1007. and when answering, never say,
"Trumbo residence."
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1008. I'll be writing for various producers
under different names.
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1009. Whomever they ask for, you come find me.
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1010. Or take a message.
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1011. Hello?
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1012. Is John Abbott there?
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1013. No, sir, may I take a message?
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1014. The door must be answered at all hours.
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1015. Got a pickup for Sally Stubblefield.
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1016. Can I get your mom to sign?
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1017. Thank you.
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1018. Dictation, shorthand
and typing will be learned.
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1019. Those of legal age will have one
of the most important jobs imaginable.
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1020. Courier.
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1021. Scripts must be delivered to producers
without raising suspicion.
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1022. Any questions? Concerns?
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1023. - Yes, Nikola.
- Is there a schedule?
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1024. A what?
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1025. I need to know when I can do homework.
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1026. And I'm part of a fundraising committee
for Negro voting rights.
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1027. Plus, every other Friday,
we have meetings for Student Council.
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1028. I'm... I have to...
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1029. Niki, we'll figure
something out, sweetheart.
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1030. Won't we?
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1031. And protests continued
as the Supreme Court may soon take up
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1032. the issue of racial segregation.
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1033. Negros in Southern towns and cities have
taken to the streets in large numbers.
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1034. All under close scrutiny
by local law enforcement.
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1035. There have been unconfirmed reports
of disturbances and rioting.
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1036. But it is not clear if the violence
was initiated by protesters...
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1037. Nikola!
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1038. or white vigilante groups.
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1039. Beyond the South, through the nation...
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1040. Now, there you go.
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1041. A few mistakes, not many.
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1042. All right.
Copy !req
1043. all top-salaried government officials
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1044. should make a full public statement
of their income...
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1045. This concludes our program
scheduled for today.
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1046. Which one is Graham Tauper?
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1047. Nympho Nun.
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1048. Oh.
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1049. Great job.
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1050. Uh, Elwood Carr, Murder at the Circus.
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1051. It needs work. I knew the clown did it.
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1052. It's always the clown.
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1053. So you are The Alien and the Farm Girl.
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1054. Yeah.
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1055. So you wrote the alien talking
about the rights of the worker.
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1056. The pathology of capitalism.
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1057. The complacency of the bourgeoisie.
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1058. I don't even know what it is
and I fucking hate it.
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1059. Well, the idea was to use the...
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1060. I paid you to write a script about
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1061. a guy with a giant bug head
shtupping a girl in a hayloft.
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1062. And you write shit
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1063. that's gonna get me
subpoenaed, and stinks!
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1064. Fix it!
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1065. Well, fuck Frank King.
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1066. I said, until he's happy, I'd rewrite.
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1067. So you're gonna stay up
with that all night, for that crap?
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1068. For what?
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1069. To get it to his high literary
and political standards?
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1070. Well, it shouldn't be to anyone's
political standards.
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1071. It's The Alien and the Farm Girl,
for Christ's sake.
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1072. What the hell were you thinking?
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1073. I was thinking.
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1074. That's why I'm a writer.
To say things that matter.
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1075. Remember that?
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1076. I was a reporter. I was
nominated for a Pulitzer.
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1077. I fought in Spain,
and I know Ernest Hemingway.
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1078. - I actually... I know him.
- Oh, bullshit.
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1079. And he knows me.
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1080. If I walked into a bar in Paris, he...
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1081. Maybe not my name, but he'll...
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1082. I'll get a wave.
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1083. Yeah.
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1084. You... You won the
National fucking Book Award.
Copy !req
1085. I mean, what are we doing?
Copy !req
1086. Okay, so the alien...
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1087. The alien impregnates the farm girl.
Copy !req
1088. - Right.
- Why?
Copy !req
1089. Because he wants to inseminate her
and propagate a new species
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1090. - on Earth and take over?
- No.
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1091. Because she reminds him
of the girl he left behind.
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1092. But he's got a bug head.
Copy !req
1093. His girlfriend's probably got
a bug head back home.
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1094. You don't get hung up
on the looks of someone.
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1095. He's falling in love with her.
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1096. Uh, okay.
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1097. You're over-thinking.
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1098. - Are you all right?
- Yeah.
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1099. You want to do this later?
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1100. No. Go, please.
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1101. All right.
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1102. I mean, do you ever miss
writing something...
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1103. Forget great, just good?
Copy !req
1104. I mean, you must have ideas still, right?
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1105. I've got a few.
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1106. There's one that won't go away.
Copy !req
1107. Cleo and I are in Mexico
at a bullfight years ago.
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1108. And the bull dies.
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1109. And, uh, thousands of people
are just cheering.
Copy !req
1110. Three weren't.
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1111. Cleo, me and this young boy down front,
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1112. crying.
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1113. Always wondered why.
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1114. Well, you write it and you'll know.
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1115. But please promise me,
not for Frank fucking King.
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1116. Please.
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1117. To present the writing awards,
here is an actor who also reads.
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1118. Mr. Kirk Douglas.
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1119. Niki, hurry!
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1120. Who's doing it?
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1121. Kirk Douglas!
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1122. I'm coming, I'm coming!
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1123. The envelope.
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1124. And the Oscar goes to
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1125. Roman Holiday by Ian McLellan Hunter.
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1126. Yes! That's you, Dad, that's you!
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1127. Dad, that is fantastic!
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1128. This is accepted on behalf
of Ian McLellan Hunter.
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1129. So do we get to be happy now?
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1130. I don't want it.
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1131. Well, I don't want it.
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1132. Your name's on it.
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1133. You wrote it.
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1134. They gave it to you.
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1135. And it's done me wonders.
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1136. Here's the gorilla script.
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1137. Huh.
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1138. - Hey, Dad.
- Ah?
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1139. Phone for you.
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1140. For which name?
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1141. No, you. Some guy named Buddy Ross.
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1142. Huh.
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1143. So, is the rumor true?
You wrote Roman Holiday?
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1144. What can I do for you, Buddy?
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1145. My movies have all bombed.
Dug me into a hole.
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1146. I finally got something going.
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1147. Classy.
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1148. Three big stars. The script...
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1149. What script? There is no script.
Copy !req
1150. I got 11 writers who fucked me
and now the actors are gonna pull out.
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1151. And if they do, I lose everything.
Copy !req
1152. When do you shoot?
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1153. Ten days.
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1154. Is there anything?
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1155. There'd be no credit, obviously.
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1156. I can't pay you till we start shooting.
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1157. I wouldn't blame you
if you spit in my face.
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1158. But we did good stuff back then.
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1159. We really did.
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1160. Please.
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1161. I owe the King Brothers a rewrite.
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1162. And I can't do both.
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1163. Here it is. I need you to take over.
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1164. So you can help that
great guy, Buddy Ross.
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1165. Mmm-mmm.
Copy !req
1166. So we can keep tearing down the blacklist.
Copy !req
1167. Oh, Jesus, here we go.
Copy !req
1168. This is going to be a very big movie,
and if Buddy gets a good script...
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1169. Which you're gonna give him.
Copy !req
1170. No, which I am going to sell him.
Copy !req
1171. For money, 'cause that's why
we did all of this, right?
Copy !req
1172. Was for the money.
Copy !req
1173. Why can you not see this?
Copy !req
1174. If we get one big movie,
we can get all the big movies.
Copy !req
1175. And then this whole rotten thing
could collapse on the sheer irony
Copy !req
1176. that every unemployable
writer is employed.
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1177. Jesus Christ, do you
have to say everything
Copy !req
1178. like it's going to be
chiseled into a rock?
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1179. I'm not gonna help you help Buddy Ross!
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1180. God's sake!
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1181. - You are against every...
- No, I...
Copy !req
1182. - ... solid idea that comes up.
- Let's do something!
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1183. These fuckers did things!
Copy !req
1184. We should be suing that
cockroach into the ground
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1185. - along with those congressmen...
- There's an idea.
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1186. - Yes, and the producers!
- Very good one.
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1187. - Yes, and the studios!
- That'll be better.
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1188. - We should sue them!
- Oh, yes, brilliant!
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1189. Keep losing. Give all of your money
away to lawyers!
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1190. I'd rather lose for the right reasons.
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1191. Why?
Copy !req
1192. It's still losing.
Copy !req
1193. You lose. I lose. We all lose!
Copy !req
1194. Don't you see that?
Copy !req
1195. And the whole goddamn country
stays scared and dead.
Copy !req
1196. Well, you really think you can
go on living like this forever?
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1197. Well, I'm not gonna have to.
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1198. Arlen, we can do this.
Copy !req
1199. We can beat them. We can win!
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1200. - I don't care if I win.
- Bullshit!
Copy !req
1201. Everybody wants to win.
Copy !req
1202. No, you want to win.
I want to change things.
Copy !req
1203. - I want to win so that I can change things.
- No, you don't!
Copy !req
1204. You want to win so that you can get
an Oscar with your name on it this time.
Copy !req
1205. And so you can get more money that you
burn through, writing shit for idiots!
Copy !req
1206. Why do I have to explain everything
to you like you're a fucking child?
Copy !req
1207. You don't have to.
Copy !req
1208. - You really don't have to.
- Piss off!
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1209. You know, you do what you do
and that's fine for you.
Copy !req
1210. But don't pretend that
you getting your career back
Copy !req
1211. is part of some great crusade
for mankind. Okay?
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1212. I'm doing this for everyone.
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1213. Arlen...
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1214. Fucking idiot.
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1215. Happy birthday to you
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1216. Happy birthday, dear Nikola
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1217. Happy birthday to you
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1218. Make a wish.
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1219. Ah.
Copy !req
1220. I got it.
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1221. Sweet 16!
Copy !req
1222. Get together with your sister.
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1223. Chris, get in there.
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1224. Ah. Thank you.
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1225. Are you sure we shouldn't go knock?
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1226. I'm sure.
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1227. He can't take five minutes?
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1228. Nope.
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1229. Two minutes?
Copy !req
1230. Niki.
Copy !req
1231. One minute.
Copy !req
1232. Chris, would you please
get the good plates?
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1233. - Yes, Mom.
- Thank you.
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1234. Dad!
Copy !req
1235. - Dad!
- Go away!
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1236. We're having birthday cake.
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1237. When you hear me working, you don't knock!
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1238. But it's my birthday.
Copy !req
1239. You don't knock! Ever!
Copy !req
1240. So the house is on fire,
you don't want to know?
Copy !req
1241. I work in a bathtub, surrounded by water.
Copy !req
1242. So I'm fairly certain that even
if the whole goddamn country was on fire,
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1243. that I could still function
as this family's personal slave.
Copy !req
1244. And all I ask is to not be interrupted
Copy !req
1245. for every little slice
of fucking birthday cake!
Copy !req
1246. What? It's ridiculous!
Copy !req
1247. Now I've lost my place. Christ's sake!
Copy !req
1248. sure, maybe you, uh,
get that long, happy life we all want.
Copy !req
1249. But your eyes never really close again.
Copy !req
1250. 'Cause you spend that life
scared of every noise in the dark.
Copy !req
1251. We both do.
I can't let you do this, Rocco.
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1252. I'll just have to convince you I'm right.
Copy !req
1253. After all, kid, what are friends for?
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1254. Don't defend him, okay?
Copy !req
1255. He knows he's wrong.
Copy !req
1256. He hasn't even apologized.
Copy !req
1257. I think you surprised him.
Copy !req
1258. He's not used to seeing
another adult in the house.
Copy !req
1259. He has to be right all the time.
Copy !req
1260. How do you stand it?
Copy !req
1261. Well, it's challenging sometimes,
especially lately.
Copy !req
1262. Hey, why don't you come
downstairs with me?
Copy !req
1263. I wanna show you something.
Copy !req
1264. You see my gloves?
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1265. Thank you.
Copy !req
1266. Do you imagine that's his head?
Copy !req
1267. No. But you can.
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1268. Niki, is that the script already?
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1269. Fantastic.
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1270. Ah. Tell your dad that...
Copy !req
1271. Oh, hello. Um, I'm looking for Arlen Hird.
Copy !req
1272. Mr. Trumbo, it's Andrew.
Copy !req
1273. Good God! Look... Look at you!
Copy !req
1274. Wow. Well, I'm certain your father
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1275. has told you some nasty things about me,
Copy !req
1276. but I want to assure you,
Copy !req
1277. they're all true.
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1278. Is, uh... Is he home?
Copy !req
1279. I'm sorry. I thought you knew.
Copy !req
1280. - I'm so sorry.
- Thank you so much.
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1281. Andrew.
Copy !req
1282. Joshua.
Copy !req
1283. My dad left something for you.
Copy !req
1284. It's a record.
Copy !req
1285. Money that he owed you
and some other people.
Copy !req
1286. I'm sorry. I wish we could pay you back.
Copy !req
1287. Andrew, no.
Copy !req
1288. I owed him.
Copy !req
1289. The debts are all mine.
Copy !req
1290. Thank you.
Copy !req
1291. Well...
Copy !req
1292. Hello, Eddie.
Copy !req
1293. This is a bit of a surprise.
Copy !req
1294. What can I do for you?
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1295. Arlen died.
Copy !req
1296. I heard. I was on location.
Copy !req
1297. This is the money you gave us
for the defense fund.
Copy !req
1298. It's everything that we owe you.
Arlen included.
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1299. No, now, that was a gift.
Copy !req
1300. We'd like it off our books.
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1301. What is this supposed to be?
Some kind of message?
Copy !req
1302. What you and Arlen and the great
Hollywood Ten all think of me.
Copy !req
1303. Fine. Fine. But first you're gonna listen.
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1304. After you went to jail,
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1305. I didn't work for a year.
Copy !req
1306. No offers, not even an audition.
Copy !req
1307. People would see me, cross the street.
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1308. People I loved.
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1309. People I made rich.
Copy !req
1310. I sat in front of that committee.
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1311. Why? I didn't do anything.
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1312. None of us did anything.
We were all stupid babies.
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1313. With no business in any of it.
Copy !req
1314. I just wanted my life back.
Copy !req
1315. They had every name.
Yours, Arlen's, everybody's.
Copy !req
1316. I didn't give them anything
they didn't already have.
Copy !req
1317. I ended it, is all. I just... I ended it!
Copy !req
1318. Oh, Eddie, you don't
end something like this.
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1319. By giving them what
they have no right to ask.
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1320. You're gonna tell me
how I should have handled it?
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1321. Like you handled Congress?
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1322. So you're saying that
you're proud of what you did?
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1323. Proud? Who the hell gets to be proud?
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1324. You. You do.
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1325. You with your fake names and your fronts.
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1326. You've got all the work you want.
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1327. I gotta go out in the world every day.
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1328. This is my work.
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1329. I've got nobody else to be.
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1330. I did what I had to.
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1331. You did what you wanted, Eddie.
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1332. And you did it for more.
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1333. More movies, more money,
Copy !req
1334. more dead bullshit on your walls.
Copy !req
1335. What I did, I did, but did you
ever wonder how many years
Copy !req
1336. you hacked off Arlen's life?
Copy !req
1337. To show the world
what a rebel genius you are.
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1338. You live with that!
Copy !req
1339. Drinking alone?
Copy !req
1340. Preferably.
Copy !req
1341. And what are you up to these days?
Copy !req
1342. You know, Hedda, another one
of these and I just may tell you.
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1343. Oh, then I'm buying.
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1344. Usual. Same again.
Copy !req
1345. Yes, Miss Hopper.
Copy !req
1346. Oh, come on, I hear the rumors.
Copy !req
1347. Show me you're still in the game,
fighting the good fight.
Copy !req
1348. Come on, rub my face in it.
Copy !req
1349. Whisper a movie you've written in secret.
Copy !req
1350. Maybe I've even heard of it.
Copy !req
1351. Maybe you have.
Copy !req
1352. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry...
I'm filming. It's crazy.
Copy !req
1353. Buddy, do you know Dalton Trumbo?
Copy !req
1354. Yes, I believe we have
worked together before.
Copy !req
1355. What was it? Was it MGM?
Copy !req
1356. A million years ago.
Nice to see you again, Buddy.
Copy !req
1357. I hear your new script's in trouble.
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1358. Maybe you should hire Dalton.
Copy !req
1359. He used to be pretty good,
and price-wise, he'd be bargain basement.
Copy !req
1360. Not that you'd ever do it.
Not after Buddy named names.
Copy !req
1361. Oh, you didn't know?
Copy !req
1362. Word was he had hired someone
he shouldn't have.
Copy !req
1363. So he got subpoenaed. He had to testify.
Copy !req
1364. Closed session. No press. Makes it easier.
Copy !req
1365. So, he named you, of course.
Copy !req
1366. Now he's been cleared.
Gets to make his movie.
Copy !req
1367. In a way, thanks to you.
Copy !req
1368. Drink, Buddy? You look as if you need one.
Copy !req
1369. Can you believe it?
Copy !req
1370. Democrats voting for segregation.
Copy !req
1371. Oh, the Southern Dixie-crats.
Copy !req
1372. We started a petition
for total integration.
Copy !req
1373. There it is.
Copy !req
1374. I already have over 1,000 signatures.
Copy !req
1375. Well, I'd be happy to make it 1,001.
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1376. And this is the new draft
Copy !req
1377. that needs to be delivered
to Hymie King in Agoura.
Copy !req
1378. Wait, Agoura? I thought
the Kings were in Hollywood.
Copy !req
1379. Oh, no, no, no. These are the rewrites.
Copy !req
1380. They're to be shot tonight, so Hymie
needs them on the set right away.
Copy !req
1381. Agoura's 40 miles.
Copy !req
1382. Yes, I'm sure Chris knows that by now.
Copy !req
1383. Well, he can't.
Copy !req
1384. I'm sorry?
Copy !req
1385. He has a date. He's taking her to a movie.
Copy !req
1386. Well, all right, then, Nikola,
you'll deliver the draft.
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1387. I have a protest.
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1388. Since when do protests
have hard start times?
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1389. I'll take it.
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1390. Nikola will take it.
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1391. I said I can't.
Copy !req
1392. Young lady, you will.
Copy !req
1393. This is important.
Copy !req
1394. So is this.
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1395. This is important to me.
Copy !req
1396. And the date's important to Chris,
so figure something else out.
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1397. Move on! He needs those now!
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1398. Oh, honey...
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1399. She hasn't been gone that long,
and it's really not that late.
Copy !req
1400. You know, this is a blatant attempt
to manipulate worry.
Copy !req
1401. Do you know when I realized
that I had to leave Hal?
Copy !req
1402. Hal? Hal who?
Copy !req
1403. My first husband Hal.
Copy !req
1404. Jesus, take the wheel!
Copy !req
1405. It was my wedding night.
Copy !req
1406. My first wedding night with Hal.
Copy !req
1407. If we're going to go back in time
to that unholy coupling,
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1408. then I have a medical obligation to drink.
Copy !req
1409. I saw this was not a man
I could have children with.
Copy !req
1410. Now, thank God for that.
Copy !req
1411. He'd bully me and them.
Copy !req
1412. And that we'd wind up like
every miserable family since forever.
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1413. But you...
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1414. I knew you would never be like that.
Copy !req
1415. That whatever happened out there,
Copy !req
1416. all that would matter,
Copy !req
1417. really matter, was us.
Copy !req
1418. Well, all that matters is us.
Copy !req
1419. No.
Copy !req
1420. Not anymore.
Copy !req
1421. Well...
Copy !req
1422. You have no idea what you could lose.
Copy !req
1423. Oh, please!
Copy !req
1424. My career
Copy !req
1425. and the First Amendment, our country.
Copy !req
1426. Am I missing anything?
Copy !req
1427. Us.
Copy !req
1428. - You're losing us.
- Oh.
Copy !req
1429. Since prison, you don't talk or ask.
Copy !req
1430. You just snap and bark.
Copy !req
1431. I keep waiting for you to start
pounding the dinner table with a gavel.
Copy !req
1432. So in addition to being
a pariah out in the world,
Copy !req
1433. I also have the supreme joy
of battling insurrection
Copy !req
1434. - in my own home where these...
- Battling insurrection?
Copy !req
1435. ten fingers literally
clothe and feed and shelter us.
Copy !req
1436. This isn't just happening to you!
Copy !req
1437. We all hurt!
Copy !req
1438. Niki, me, your friends!
Copy !req
1439. Friends? What friends?
Copy !req
1440. Who the hell has the luxury of friends?
Copy !req
1441. I've got allies and enemies.
Copy !req
1442. There's no room for anything else.
Copy !req
1443. We know.
Copy !req
1444. Good.
Copy !req
1445. Then this discussion ends.
Copy !req
1446. This isn't a discussion. It's a fight.
Copy !req
1447. I will not let our children
be raised by a bully.
Copy !req
1448. Be back.
Copy !req
1449. All right.
Copy !req
1450. I didn't want to fight in front
of my friends, but I'm not going home.
Copy !req
1451. I didn't come here to fight.
Copy !req
1452. You know, your mother is a quiet person.
Copy !req
1453. Normally.
Copy !req
1454. The effect of which is that
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1455. she can actually make me hear myself.
Copy !req
1456. It's extraordinary.
Copy !req
1457. Lately, it's not a sound I like much.
Copy !req
1458. Mostly because what I hear is just how...
Copy !req
1459. How afraid I am.
Copy !req
1460. Afraid that I'm scarring you...
Copy !req
1461. All of you.
Copy !req
1462. And what if it's all for nothing?
What then?
Copy !req
1463. Well, so, I fight.
Copy !req
1464. It's all I know how to do anymore.
Copy !req
1465. Any... I mean, it's just...
Copy !req
1466. Just rage at anyone who gets in my way.
Copy !req
1467. But you have never been in my way, Nikola.
Copy !req
1468. Not once.
Copy !req
1469. It's crazy how mad you make me.
Copy !req
1470. Since all I ever wanted
was to be just like you.
Copy !req
1471. Well, I'm afraid to say
that you've succeeded.
Copy !req
1472. We know, okay?
Copy !req
1473. It's a small town.
The gossip's always true.
Copy !req
1474. Fire Dalton Trumbo and the rest of them
Copy !req
1475. or you got pickets,
headlines and boycotts.
Copy !req
1476. We will put you right out of business.
Copy !req
1477. We?
Copy !req
1478. The Motion Picture Alliance
for the Preservation of American Ideals.
Copy !req
1479. Me and Ronald Reagan, Hedda Hopper,
Copy !req
1480. guilds, studio heads, John Wayne.
Copy !req
1481. I love John Wayne.
Copy !req
1482. Well, I'll introduce you.
Copy !req
1483. You guys could do a movie together.
Copy !req
1484. Oh, gee, that would be swell.
Copy !req
1485. Except I don't think
Copy !req
1486. - you and me are gonna be pals.
- Hey, Frank!
Copy !req
1487. - You wanna keep me from hiring union?
- Frank! Frank!
Copy !req
1488. I'll go downtown, hire a bunch
of winos and hookers!
Copy !req
1489. It doesn't matter!
Copy !req
1490. - I make garbage!
- Frank!
Copy !req
1491. You want to call me a pinko
in the papers? Do it!
Copy !req
1492. - None of the people that go
to my fucking movies can read! - No, wait.
Copy !req
1493. I am in this for the money and the pussy
and they're both falling off the trees.
Copy !req
1494. Take it away from me.
Copy !req
1495. Go ahead. I won't sue you,
Copy !req
1496. but this will be the last fucking thing
you see before I beat you to death with it.
Copy !req
1497. Tiffany!
Copy !req
1498. Right here.
Copy !req
1499. Fuck you want?
Copy !req
1500. Uh... Oh, uh...
Copy !req
1501. - New script.
- Oh, yeah?
Copy !req
1502. Yes, it's a family picture.
Copy !req
1503. Something I've been mulling.
Copy !req
1504. It's the story of a young
Mexican boy and his pet bull.
Copy !req
1505. Sounds a little fruity. What's it called?
Copy !req
1506. The Brave One. Oh, one problem though.
Copy !req
1507. Expensive?
Copy !req
1508. Worse.
Copy !req
1509. It's good.
Copy !req
1510. Olé! Olé!
Copy !req
1511. Who told you? What else did they say?
Copy !req
1512. Well...
Copy !req
1513. You too. And thank you, Frank.
Copy !req
1514. What?
Copy !req
1515. The Brave One has been nominated
for an Academy Award.
Copy !req
1516. Oh.
Copy !req
1517. - Really?
- Yes, really!
Copy !req
1518. That's crazy.
Copy !req
1519. I don't know. It's like Roman Holiday.
Copy !req
1520. Oh, Hymie, this is nothing
like Roman Holiday.
Copy !req
1521. Roman Holiday had a guy
with a name and a body
Copy !req
1522. they could give the award to.
Copy !req
1523. There is no Robert Rich.
Who gets the thing if it wins?
Copy !req
1524. Well, maybe it won't.
Copy !req
1525. I mean, it's not that good. No offense.
Copy !req
1526. None taken.
Copy !req
1527. And now I'd like to say
two of the most beautiful words
Copy !req
1528. in the motion-picture industry,
Deborah Kerr.
Copy !req
1529. The nominations for Best
Motion Picture Story are,
Copy !req
1530. Robert Rich for The Brave One,
Copy !req
1531. Leo Katcher for The Eddy Duchin Story,
Copy !req
1532. Jean-Paul Sartre for
The Proud and the Beautiful,
Copy !req
1533. and Cesare Zavattini for Umberto D.
Copy !req
1534. The envelope please.
Copy !req
1535. The Brave One, Robert Rich!
Copy !req
1536. Dad!
Copy !req
1537. - You won!
- Who's that guy?
Copy !req
1538. Mr. Jesse Lasky Jr., Vice President
of the screenwriter's branch
Copy !req
1539. of the Writers Guild, will accept
the award for Mr. Rich.
Copy !req
1540. On behalf of Robert Rich and his
beautiful story, thank you very much.
Copy !req
1541. So weird.
Copy !req
1542. We can't find Mr. Rich anywhere.
He apparently...
Copy !req
1543. Who the hell is Robert Rich?
Copy !req
1544. I gotta go.
Copy !req
1545. It had better not be who they say.
Copy !req
1546. - Mr. Trumbo.
- Yes?
Copy !req
1547. Are you Robert Rich?
Did you write The Brave One?
Copy !req
1548. Well, you see, it's my policy
Copy !req
1549. not to claim credit for any one movie.
Copy !req
1550. That way, it's possible that I had
something to do with all of them.
Copy !req
1551. Except the stinkers,
which were all written
Copy !req
1552. by my enemies.
Copy !req
1553. What's your position on the blacklist?
Copy !req
1554. Well, on it.
Copy !req
1555. Along with thousands of others.
Copy !req
1556. Are you using this Robert Rich
controversy to try and end it?
Copy !req
1557. See, The Brave One
is a nice little picture.
Copy !req
1558. And if rumors of my involvement
Copy !req
1559. can help sell tickets, well, then, good.
Copy !req
1560. And if the strange circumstances
Copy !req
1561. of its authorship raised a few questions,
Copy !req
1562. well, even better.
Copy !req
1563. - Trumbo?
- Yes?
Copy !req
1564. - Phone for you.
- Well, who is it?
Copy !req
1565. Some crazy guy, says he's Kirk Douglas.
Copy !req
1566. Really? Huh. Well, thank you, Nikola.
Copy !req
1567. Niki? Kirk.
Copy !req
1568. Kirk.
Copy !req
1569. Dalton.
Copy !req
1570. My apologies.
Copy !req
1571. We've had more than our
share of crank calls lately.
Copy !req
1572. - I can imagine.
- Please have a seat.
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1573. May I get you a drink?
Copy !req
1574. No. No thank you.
Copy !req
1575. All right.
Copy !req
1576. - So?
- I'm doing a new picture.
Copy !req
1577. And I just got the script.
Copy !req
1578. That must be seven hours
of entertainment there.
Copy !req
1579. Not a single page is entertaining.
Copy !req
1580. But there's a good story
in there somewhere.
Copy !req
1581. About one man who tried
to take on the whole world.
Copy !req
1582. Well, you've got me so far.
Copy !req
1583. He was a slave who led a revolt
against the Roman Empire.
Copy !req
1584. Hmm.
Copy !req
1585. Now, what's the title?
Copy !req
1586. Spartacus.
Copy !req
1587. No, no, no.
Copy !req
1588. I can't tell you what I'm working on now,
except to say that
Copy !req
1589. the blacklist is alive and well
and so is the black market.
Copy !req
1590. Well, yes, you can quote me on that.
Copy !req
1591. Seeing my name in the papers
drives certain people out of their minds.
Copy !req
1592. Of course. Here he is.
Copy !req
1593. - Kirk.
- Hedda.
Copy !req
1594. I'd like you to meet a friend
of mine, Bob Stripling.
Copy !req
1595. House Un-American Activities Committee.
Copy !req
1596. Mr. Douglas.
Copy !req
1597. Mr. Stripling.
Copy !req
1598. Drink?
Copy !req
1599. No, thank you.
Copy !req
1600. You said it was important.
Copy !req
1601. Only if you hired Dalton Trumbo.
Copy !req
1602. Who I hire is my business.
Copy !req
1603. No, Mr. Douglas.
Copy !req
1604. It's ours.
Copy !req
1605. Why?
Copy !req
1606. 'Cause we have to keep this country safe.
Copy !req
1607. And how are you doing that?
Copy !req
1608. Well, why don't I show you
by putting you on the stand?
Copy !req
1609. Hedda, is your friend trying to scare me?
Copy !req
1610. He's just trying to show you
the way things are.
Copy !req
1611. Maybe I don't like the way things are.
Copy !req
1612. Kirk, we've known each other a long time.
Copy !req
1613. Since when did you become such a bastard?
Copy !req
1614. I was always a bastard.
You just never noticed.
Copy !req
1615. Yes?
Copy !req
1616. I wish to see the man who wrote this.
Copy !req
1617. Please, come in.
Copy !req
1618. Thank you.
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1619. I am Otto Preminger.
Copy !req
1620. The director.
Copy !req
1621. Forgive me, I...
Copy !req
1622. I've just finished work
a few hours ago. I...
Copy !req
1623. A copy of which I've read.
Copy !req
1624. But how could...
Copy !req
1625. I just had that delivered this morning.
Copy !req
1626. I am Otto Preminger, the director.
Copy !req
1627. Please.
Copy !req
1628. Oh, yes, my youngest thinks
Copy !req
1629. that I can end the suffering
of all broken birds.
Copy !req
1630. As can I, with a broiler.
Copy !req
1631. Are your duties completed
for Mr. Kirk Douglas?
Copy !req
1632. No, but I do have
two weeks off for Christmas.
Copy !req
1633. During which time you will work with me.
Copy !req
1634. Will I?
Copy !req
1635. If you're as intelligent as your writing.
Copy !req
1636. And as greedy as your reputation.
Copy !req
1637. Hmm.
Copy !req
1638. It is an adaptation of the novel Exodus.
Copy !req
1639. You've read it?
Copy !req
1640. No.
Copy !req
1641. A colossal bestseller.
Copy !req
1642. Very nearly a perfect piece of shit.
Copy !req
1643. But there's a good story
in there somewhere.
Copy !req
1644. I have no idea.
Copy !req
1645. But I have Paul Newman.
Copy !req
1646. We have spoken. He is a little reticent,
Copy !req
1647. but I believe, at the right price,
he will accept.
Copy !req
1648. So you're doing it?
Copy !req
1649. Well, I think it's the only
way to get him to leave.
Copy !req
1650. It's very important.
Copy !req
1651. Poor Mr. Preminger.
Copy !req
1652. He thinks he's the cat
and you're the mouse.
Copy !req
1653. Oh, look at that. Perfect.
Copy !req
1654. Hey, Mitzi, what's that? A Russian doll?
Copy !req
1655. Absolutely perfect.
Copy !req
1656. Oh! What is this, Santa?
Copy !req
1657. Just a little something for Mrs. Claus.
Copy !req
1658. I'll open it later.
Copy !req
1659. Christmas is over.
Copy !req
1660. Well...
Copy !req
1661. Did you read the new scenes?
Copy !req
1662. Dreadful. Keep up this level of work,
Copy !req
1663. and I will see to it
your name is on my movie.
Copy !req
1664. To take the blame.
Copy !req
1665. Well, there you go.
Copy !req
1666. Ooh! Hello. Hi, Sammy.
Copy !req
1667. Oh, do you know that
Kirk Douglas gave me this bird?
Copy !req
1668. It's a distraction.
Copy !req
1669. No. No, not at all.
Copy !req
1670. I named him Sam Jackson.
Copy !req
1671. He wrote Spartacus.
Copy !req
1672. Well?
Copy !req
1673. - Better.
- Thank God.
Copy !req
1674. But it simply lacks genius.
Copy !req
1675. Otto, if every scene is brilliant,
Copy !req
1676. your movie is going to be
utterly monotonous.
Copy !req
1677. I'll tell you what.
Copy !req
1678. You write every scene brilliantly,
Copy !req
1679. and I will direct unevenly.
Copy !req
1680. What is it, dear?
Copy !req
1681. Thank you.
Copy !req
1682. Oh, hello, Kirk.
Copy !req
1683. Merry Christmas. Thank you, Mitzi.
Copy !req
1684. Otto. How are you?
Copy !req
1685. I am very well, Kirk.
Copy !req
1686. I, uh, didn't mean to interrupt.
Copy !req
1687. No, no. No, not at all. Not at all.
Copy !req
1688. Otto, would you mind
if we had a little chat?
Copy !req
1689. Won't be a second.
Copy !req
1690. I sort of feel like
I walked in on my wife.
Copy !req
1691. Do you love him?
Copy !req
1692. Oh, it's far more lurid than that.
Copy !req
1693. He's paying me for my services.
Copy !req
1694. So am I.
Copy !req
1695. And you'll get them again,
January 2nd, as promised.
Copy !req
1696. I just need you a few days
on some of the new scenes.
Copy !req
1697. Of course, but not until the 2nd.
Copy !req
1698. I wouldn't ask, but I've
never had a director
Copy !req
1699. who's a bigger pain in my ass
than Stanley Kubrick.
Copy !req
1700. The worst part is, he's right.
Copy !req
1701. Well, I wouldn't refuse, but...
Copy !req
1702. Well, I really...
This should remain between us.
Copy !req
1703. Of course.
Copy !req
1704. Well...
Copy !req
1705. Preminger has declared that...
Copy !req
1706. Well, what he said was,
Copy !req
1707. "You keep up this level of work,
Copy !req
1708. "and I'll see to it that
your name is on my movie."
Copy !req
1709. - Really?
- Oh, yes.
Copy !req
1710. Those were his exact words.
Copy !req
1711. Be in touch.
Copy !req
1712. Very well.
Copy !req
1713. Merry Christmas!
Copy !req
1714. You too.
Copy !req
1715. I suppose he wants you back.
Copy !req
1716. Well, no. No, no. He...
Copy !req
1717. He just stopped by
to talk about a screen credit.
Copy !req
1718. On Spartacus?
Copy !req
1719. Well, I really shouldn't
have said anything.
Copy !req
1720. You understand.
Copy !req
1721. Five minutes! Back in
five minutes, everybody!
Copy !req
1722. Kirk,
Copy !req
1723. Hedda Hopper just told me the American
Legion is going to boycott us
Copy !req
1724. unless you get rid of Trumbo.
Copy !req
1725. Ed, he's not done with the script.
Copy !req
1726. His name will never be on the thing.
Copy !req
1727. What's anybody boycotting?
Copy !req
1728. Kirk... Just a second. Please. Please.
Copy !req
1729. Just give me five seconds, please.
Copy !req
1730. Listen. Twenty million Americans
are saying loud and clear,
Copy !req
1731. they will never buy a ticket to our movie
unless you fire one writer.
Copy !req
1732. Here's 50! Pick one.
Copy !req
1733. Mind if I stick my nose in?
Copy !req
1734. Please.
Copy !req
1735. He knows. He sees Kirk Douglas
coming in and out of here.
Copy !req
1736. And Otto Preminger and his Rolls.
Copy !req
1737. He's an idiot. But he's not stupid.
Copy !req
1738. Has he called the FBI?
Copy !req
1739. Congress?
Copy !req
1740. No, because everything they can do,
Copy !req
1741. they've already done.
Copy !req
1742. That Oscar belongs to you.
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1743. Get it!
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1744. My God! You're nothing like me.
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1745. You're worse.
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1746. For the record, you're Robert Rich?
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1747. I am.
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1748. I've been through the whole list, Ed.
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1749. They're all hacks.
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1750. And you wrote The Brave One?
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1751. I did.
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1752. Ed, let me call you back.
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1753. Why come forward now?
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1754. Well, as someone who has been
thoroughly investigated
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1755. by the House Un-American
Activities Committee,
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1756. I started wondering,
why hasn't anyone taken
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1757. a good long look at them
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1758. and their work in the movie industry?
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1759. You see, they were convened
to uncover enemy agents,
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1760. expose communist conspiracies
and write anti-sedition laws.
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1761. Well, here we are, thousands of hours
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1762. and millions of dollars later.
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1763. Agents uncovered, zero.
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1764. Conspiracies exposed, zero.
Laws written, zero.
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1765. You see, all they do is deny
people their right to work.
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1766. And they can't even get that right.
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1767. Academy Awards, two.
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1768. And how does that feel?
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1769. To have so undermined the blacklist
that it's almost a joke.
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1770. A joke?
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1771. I know the blacklist
that produced Robert Rich.
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1772. I've seen its horror and cruelty.
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1773. A hideous waste of life
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1774. as I've walked in the
long line of its anonymous.
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1775. And I cannot invent one more
witticism about Robert Rich
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1776. or the Oscar he can't claim.
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1777. Because that small,
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1778. worthless golden statue
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1779. is covered with the blood of my friends.
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1780. I'll get it.
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1781. Hello? Oh, hello, Otto.
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1782. I've read your last draft.
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1783. What do you think?
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1784. My answer is on the front page
of today's New York Times.
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1785. You hated it that much?
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1786. Merry Christmas, Mr. Trumbo.
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1787. Ed, have a seat.
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1788. - Well, why doesn't he kill him?
- Kill him.
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1789. Kill him!
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1790. - Kill him, you imbecile!
- Kill him!
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1791. Kill him!
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1792. Great. Great.
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1793. Marty, have them put up the scene
with Varinia and Crassus.
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1794. - Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
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1795. - Listen, Kirk, I...
- One second.
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1796. Warren, I'd like you to
put out a press release.
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1797. The screen... One second, Warren.
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1798. What do you remember when
you think about Spartacus?
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1799. He was a man who began all alone
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1800. like an animal.
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1801. Yet on the day he died,
thousands and thousands
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1802. would gladly have died in his place.
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1803. What was he? Was he a god?
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1804. He wasn't a god.
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1805. He was simple man. A slave.
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1806. I loved him.
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1807. Warren, the press release will say,
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1808. "The screenplay for Spartacus
was written by Dalton Trumbo."
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1809. Thank you.
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1810. Kirk, if you don't get rid
of Trumbo, I will.
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1811. And right after I quit,
you can reshoot all my scenes.
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1812. You see, Ed, for better or worse,
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1813. I am Spartacus.
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1814. There's a picture coming out.
It's called Spartacus.
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1815. It's starring Kirk Douglas,
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1816. and it is written by Dalton Trumbo.
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1817. If there is some
other writer's name on it,
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1818. don't believe it.
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1819. We're on to them.
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1820. - Yes?
- Now, listen, Ed.
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1821. We'll picket every theater that movie
is in unless you pull the prints tonight.
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1822. And you get that traitor's name off it.
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1823. Hedda, you can't put me in this position.
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1824. That's expensive and pointless.
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1825. Then you can kiss your movie,
your studio and your miserable ass goodbye.
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1826. Hollywood turns out in force to
hail Ul's new film spectacle, Spartacus,
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1827. on the premier of the $12-million picture,
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1828. in the film colony.
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1829. The protesters also showed up to remind
everyone of the political controversy
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1830. surrounding the making of this film.
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1831. Cleo?
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1832. What is it? What's wrong?
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1833. Oh...
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1834. It's over, isn't it?
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1835. Yes. Yes.
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1836. And we made it.
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1837. Yes.
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1838. President Kennedy
enjoyed a rare evening off
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1839. attending the new
Kirk Douglas film, Spartacus.
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1840. We are here live, awaiting
the president's comments.
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1841. Mr. President,
Mr. President, Mr. President!
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1842. It's a very controversial film.
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1843. What did you think?
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1844. Oh, I think it's a fine picture,
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1845. and I think it's going to be a big hit.
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1846. The implication of Kennedy's
approval of this film are wide ranging.
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1847. The novel was written
by a former communist.
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1848. The screenplay was adapted
by a former communist.
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1849. And this signifies the
blacklist may be over,
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1850. as Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger
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1851. have openly hired and credited
blacklisted writers.
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1852. This is a clear repudiation of
a decade-long fight by anti-communists...
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1853. This next award is for the member
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1854. who has advanced the
literature of motion pictures.
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1855. Occasionally, there appears
among us a person
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1856. whose virtues are so manifest,
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1857. who so subordinates his own ego
to the concerns of others,
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1858. who lives in such harmony
with all the standards of the community,
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1859. that he is revered and loved by everyone.
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1860. Such a man, Dalton Trumbo is not.
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1861. It gives me great pleasure to present
the Writers Guild of America Laurel Award
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1862. to Dalton Trumbo.
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1863. Congratulations.
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1864. Thank you, thank you very much.
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1865. Thank you, thank you very much,
ladies and gentlemen.
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1866. Often, when I stand before
the film community,
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1867. there's an elephant in the room.
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1868. Me.
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1869. And I thought I would address that.
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1870. The blacklist was a time of evil.
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1871. And no one who survived it
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1872. came through untouched by evil.
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1873. Caught in a situation that had passed
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1874. beyond the control of mere individuals.
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1875. Each person reacted as his nature,
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1876. his needs, his convictions,
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1877. and his particular circumstances
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1878. compelled him to.
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1879. It was a time of fear.
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1880. And no one was exempt.
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1881. Scores of people lost their homes.
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1882. Their families disintegrated. They lost!
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1883. And in some...
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1884. Some even lost their lives.
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1885. But when you look back
upon that dark time,
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1886. as I think you should every now and then,
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1887. it will do you no good
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1888. to search for heroes or villains.
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1889. There weren't any.
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1890. There were only victims.
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1891. Victims, because each of us
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1892. felt compelled to say or do things
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1893. that we otherwise would not.
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1894. To deliver or receive wounds
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1895. which we truly did not wish to exchange.
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1896. I look out to my family sitting there,
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1897. and I realize what I've put them through.
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1898. And it's unfair.
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1899. My wife, who somehow kept it all together,
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1901. And so what I say here tonight
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1903. to be hurtful to anyone.
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1904. It is intended to heal the hurt.
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1905. To repair the wounds which,
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1907. have been inflicted upon each other.
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1908. And most egregiously, upon ourselves.
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1909. Thank you. Thank you kindly.
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1912. I have... I have a daughter, 13 years old.
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1913. I've been blacklisted since she was three.
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1914. She's known the title
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1915. of every motion picture
I've written in this study.
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1916. And she's kept that title secret till now.
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1917. A soldier.
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1918. When her friends say to her,
as children do,
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1919. "My father does so-and-so.
What does your father do?"
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1920. This has confronted her
with a very real problem.
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1921. It confronts her with the problem,
and has since she was three,
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1923. And what her father really does.
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1924. I, uh, think
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1925. I will give this Oscar,
if I get it, to that girl.
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1926. I think I will tell her,
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1927. "Well, here is one secret
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1928. "you no longer need to be burdened with."
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1929. I'll tell her we have
our names back again.
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