Dalton Trumbo: blacklisted Hollywood radical

Introduction

Under western skies

Baking bread and writing in Los Angeles

Playing the studio game and organizing guilds

Marriage and Johnny got his gun

From B films to A films

Money, politics, and war

Into the Communist Party

Trumbo's antifascist persuasion

The 1947 hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities

Blacklisted, indicted, convicted

The time of the toad

Incarceration and drift

Oh, oh, Mexico

Negotiating the black market, working with the King Brothers

Once more into the Communist Party

Blacklist and black-market politics

Using and revealing Robert Rich

Spartacus

Exodus and the credit announcements

Back on the screen

Hawaii and The sandpiper

The fixer and the Laurel Award

Johnny got his gun, the movie: preproduction

Johnny got his gun, the movie: principal photography and editing

Johnny got his gun, the movie: distribution and exhibition

The final years

Postmortem.