One Of The Hollywood Ten

While a bit thin and simplistic, this biopic is worth viewing for its background information on the Hollywood blacklist years, and the making of the only film ever suppressed by the US government: SALT OF THE EARTH (1954). We follow Herbert Biberman (Jeff Goldblum), a movie director, and husband of Gale Sondergaard (Greta Scacchi); who, with nine other directors and writers, is faced with the famous question, “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Biberman refuses to answer. He’s put in jail for a year along with the rest of the Hollywood Ten, and his career is destroyed. Upon release, he and a few other blacklisted filmmakers make the ...