Trumbo (2015)

Watch Trumbo (2015) online for free on 123Movies. Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) is a talented screenwriter. However, his active membership in the Communist Party draws the contempt of anti-Soviet entertainment industry figures, such as columnist Hedda Hopper (Dame Helen Mirren) and John Wayne (David James Elliott). Trumbo is one of ten screenwriters subpoenaed to testify before the United States Congress regarding Communist propaganda in Hollywood movies. In 1950, Trumbo served eleven months in prison where he met J. Parnell Thomas (James DuMont), who was convicted of tax evasion. As the Hollywood Blacklist expands to exclude more Communists and Communist sympathizers from working in the industry, Trumbo and his comrades are abandoned by Democratic actor Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Producer Buddy Ross (Roger Bart), who disavowed them to protect their careers. Trumbo’s prison term eventually finished, but he remained blacklisted and his finances and family life became increasingly strained. He resorted to giving the screenplay for Roman Holiday (1953) to his friend Ian McLellan Hunter (Alan Tudyk), to take credit and a share of the money, and eventually the Academy Award for Best Story. He went to work as a pseudonymous screenwriter for the low-budget King Brothers Productions. Over time, industry suspicion of Trumbo’s ghostwriting developed, but he was careful not to confirm it. In 1960, Producer and actor Kirk Douglas (Dean O’Gorman) recruited him to write the screenplay for Spartacus (1960). What followed next was a story about principles and how principles can make or break you.