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Blacklisted, Episode 1
- Hollywood on Trial
- Narrated by: Tony Kahn, Rob Leibman, Carol O'Connor
- Length: 30 mins
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Blacklisted, Episode 1
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Publisher's Summary
Episode One: The House Un-American Activities Committee opens its stormy hearings into Communist influence in Hollywood, in October, 1947. Ten leftist screenwriters denounce the investigation and are sentenced to jail for contempt. Gordon Kahn, a well-known enemy of HUAC, escapes a similar fate when the Committee suspends it hearings before calling him to testify. Blacklisted and under FBI surveillance, Kahn sells his Beverly Hills house and moves his family to Studio City. As fear of criticizing the Committee spreads through Hollywood, Kahn fights publicly for the freedom of "The Hollywood Ten."
This program is part of a series of six half-hour dramas about one of the darkest periods for the First Amendment in American history: the Hollywood blacklist. Gordon Kahn's son, Tony Kahn, produced the series. It is available in its an entirety under the title Blacklisted.
What the critics say
"A remarkable story of a son's unrelenting search for his father and his ability to turn that search into art." (The Boston Globe)