Dalton Trumbo and his wife Cleo at the 1947 HUAC hearings that resulted in his imprisonment

Dalton Trumbo was one of the heroes of the dreadful McCarthy era. A top Hollywood screenwriter, he was blacklisted as one of the "Hollywood Ten" - and imprisoned for his refusal to divulge his political beliefs to the self-styled "House Committee on Un-American Activities". He wrote under pseudonyms throughout the 1950s - winning two Academy...