“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.” -Martin Niemöller
That was awesome. I've actually never heard that quote before. But.... BLACKLIST!! You're about to be blacklisted! We're going to need you to go ahead and give us your Facebook Page Info. We have... questions for your friends.
Actually was: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me. Nothing about communists.
Zandandido - when this famous quote was made, the communists were the enemy of the whole world. The poem is about how could the Shoah have happened, in a country like Germany?
All of this is a lye invented by Hollywood because they are still a bunch of commies. Reason for the 'blacklisting' was not because of what they where saying but because of bad box office returns.
High Noon did not portray a corrupt sheriff. In fact he is seen as noble as he stands his ground when no one else will help him out with the bad guys who are coming to town to kill him. At the end he guns down the bad guys and leaves his job in disgust.
Back up the sherrif in High Noon is NOT corrupt. He is stalwart, brave and true. Several killers whom the sherrif put in prison are out and headed to the town for revenge. The townspeople won't back him up because of cowardice. They fear death and the destruction of their town. So they would rather have the sheriff run away and placate the criminals. THAT is what John Wayne had a problem with
The Sheriff in high noon was not corrupt, John Wayne objected to the Sheriff throwing his badge in the dirt and leaving, the town's people abandoned the Sheriff and hid.
I'm Canadian, and when I was younger like 8 to 10 I used to secretly wish I was from America cuz well... it was America, and all my favorite actors were from there or lived there, but now that I'm older I'm so glad I was born in Canada lmao
Why today, just look at the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. The character satirically based off of McCarthy is realistically made to look like a power-hungry pathological liar who then is assassinated.
yes really. for most kids the tv and the internet is their surrogate parent , while the real parents work themselves to death. that's america. kids learn their values from talking heads on the screen, whom they see more often than their parents.
In High Noon, Gary Cooper was NOT corrupt; he was honest, honorable (almost pathologically so) and courageous! Get your facts straight before trying to foist your in-American politics on us!
Doesn't the Hollywood blacklist still exist, just in a different form? Isn't it true that conservatives and Republicans in Hollywood now lose work because of their political beliefs?? Don't they get their shows cancelled for speaking their minds???
Joseph Ybarra 1 the creators of Hollywood 2 Hollywood communism trials 3 Myron C Fagan red flags over Hollywood 4 E Michael Jones culture wars 5 NWO communism through the back door ...type these into UA-cam
wait a minute, some dumbаsses are denying the validity of your statement, and in very broken english attacking you based on the groundless assumption that youre a conservative lol i cant believe people this stupid exist
It's a delicate dilemma... in a country that values personal freedom, that must include the freedom to choose communism, and other alternative goverment- which would ultimately remove those same freedoms. The Hollywood blacklisting took the fear communism too far, of course. But it's strange how some people are pro communism- or it's lead-in, socialism- in this age of the fear of all things Russian.
I'm listening True national communism has never actually been done before. It's been attempted, but someone always comes along and fucks it up along the way. Soviet union was well on its way until Stalin seized power and essentially became a fascist dictator running a socialist nation. You see, communism is not the problem. People are. People will fight tooth and nail for every last dime they can scrape together, even if that means starving, killing, and torturing people who have less power than you. That is why we need a government, because anarchy will lead to one man ruling a kingdom of bones. This is also why we need checks and balances in our government. However, as this video demonstrates, the checks and balances do not always work. Regular people had their constitutional rights stolen from them in a court which is sworn to uphold the constitution. They were convicted of thoughtcrime, guilty only of having an opinion that those in power disagree with. The bottom line is that people cannot be trusted with power, and neither can governments. That is why we must balance a free private sector with a government that is divided such that each branch steals power away from the others. Almost like crabs in a bucket. Each branch steals from a different branch, all while getting stolen from themselves. The net distribution of power is then even.
That's just the excuse given for the failure of communism and socialism. "Oh the people who knew it best just didn't do it right. We can do it right and it will totally work this time." As I recall that was also the mantra when Hugo Chavez was elected. As to your desirous reason for government I like the American reason better, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."
@@Kalroy it's no excuse, it's the truth. Read about what communism is supposed to be, and then read about how it went down in those countries, and you'll find out that there's never been a communist country in the world.
The sheriff in High Noon was not corrupt. Have you even seen the movie? The sheriff is trying to raise a posse to help him deal with a character named Frank Miller and his criminal gang. The townsfolk are either indifferent to the sherrif or hostile to him, as many of the locals are friends of Miller. Wayne's problem with High Noon was with the last scene, where the sherrif [played by Gary Cooper] throws away his badge.
My Uncle was a Professor of Russian History in California. He was blacklisted because anyone who would teach the history of a communist country must be a communist himself😢
The President's Mystery was not based on any book by Sinclair Lewis. I'm very familiar with Lewis' works. The president was FDR who challenged 5 writers to come up with a mystery story. On the credits it says the film was inspired by FDR and lists all 6 writers. The screenplay was partnered by two men, one being Nathan West who wrote Miss Lonelyhearts and others.
Actually, Reagan removed his soon-to-be second wife from the Blacklist because it had her confused with another Nancy Davis. Two popular names that I think were even more popular back then.
Actually the woman's movie was very popular. My favorite is Mildred Pierce where a woman creates her own line of coffee shops on her own after her husband walks out on her. She even takes the blame for a murder her daughter committed.
Yeah. It was mostly set in Hawaii a few years prior to statehood. I think the title was BIG JIM McCLAIN. I don't recall if the the House committee as specified as the employer of Wayne's character.
10: None of the ten members of the Hollywood 10 (the beginning of the Blacklist) invoked the 5th Amendment. On the advice of their lawyer, a former assistant district attorney from San Francisco, they declared their right not to answer any questions based on the 1st Amendment. Yes, they were truly that dim. Many people later questioned by congress did invoke the 5th, as they were allowed to do. Therefor, they suffered no judicial consequences. 9: All ten members of the Hollywood 10 were members of the Communist Party USA. That was certainly not illegal, but they kept it secret and registered with the party under assumed names. We know this because the FBI had an agent undercover in the party who was able to snag a copy of the membership roster that listed the actual names with the assumed names. 8: At least seven of the Hollywood 10 were actively involved with trying to secure Communist Party domination of the Screen Writers Guild or the Screen Directors Guild, depending on which union they were members of. Only one of the Hollywood 10 was actually an actor, the others were writers and directors. An effort to gain influence on the Screen Actors Guild was started by the Communists, but they were shut down by the President of that union, Ronald Reagan. 7: Humphrey Bogart, famously photographed at the head of a march defending the Hollywood 10 pulled his support for them when he found out through hearings by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee that there were all actually Communists. 6: The Blacklist was created and maintained, as described at the beginning of this video, by an organization of the Hollywood studios, the MPA. Though the MPA may have paid close attention to Congressional testimony, or lack thereof, the United States Government had nothing to do with creating or maintaining the Blacklist. 5: Sinclair Lewis was a socialist, and the screenwriter named was a card "not" carrying Communist. 4: Abraham Polonsky was a member of the 10 and a Communist. 3: Anti-Communist efforts were strongly supported by both political parties. 2: See number 7 and number 10 above. 1: The Blacklist lasted from 1948 to 1960. Please count on your fingers, that's 12 years, not decades. Of course, the time and money spent chasing commies in Hollywood was a waste because few people paid attention to whatever propaganda that made it into American movies. The most trenchant Communist propaganda was produced during WWII when we were trying to convince Americans to love Uncle Joe. Of course, as soon as the war was over, Stalin lowered the iron curtain, exploded an A-bomb (design stolen from us by Klaus Fuchs and sent to the Soviets by the Rosenbergs) we needed to change our view by about 180 degrees. Then we hated that Communist propaganda. Ironically, HUAC and their Senate equivalent used the movies that the US Government had encouraged Hollywood to make extolling the virtues of the Soviet Union as prime examples of the extent that propaganda was infiltrating Hollywood. Oh, well.
Many of these entries would have gone viral, had they taken place in this day of social media - in reference to one of your list from a couple of weeks ago. Personally, I also initially thought it was about the series lol.
Interesting video, but two commercials in the same video..... It’s annoying, and breaks my focus while watching. Very frustrating, and turns me off this channel.
This is my favourite of the top tenz. Provides a harrowing tale of the zealousness with which the powerful have attempted to equate any attempts at human improvement with communism/Socialism. We see it today with environmental protection, living wages, public healthcare etc. Stalin must and would be impressed with the success of propaganda in a putatively free and democratic country
You do realize that after the Berlin wall fell documents showed that in fact the SSSR was funding all of the 10 and that they in fact where pushing commie propaganda?
The big problem with many conservatives is that they think criticism of any law enforcement is criticism against ALL law enforcement. Their common refrains is: Cops have a tough job, I support the police
I would be labeled as conservative ( I think labels are stupid btw) and I think law enforcement is as corrupt as any government out there and that cops should be held to a higher standard when they break the law than non-police people because of they are cops. Yeah they may have a tough job but that's why they can be pricks with badges, however that shouldn't give them the ability to make the laws up as they go along or be above the law.
in the arts , VERY FEW have the same assumed values as ' regular ' or ' standard ' people are considered to have , and lead their lives accordingly - which made them easy blackmail targets for the studios or anyone else who wanted something from them , and who wanted to use their celebrity for self-gain ! the studios were also blackmailed !
This fellow glossed over a lot of facts. He seems to imply that those involved who were Communists in Hollywood were just a bunch of innocent weaklings. He fails to mention those "weaklings" in Hollywood and their thugs (Herb Sorrell and company) did physical damage to people and property who disagreed with their Communist philosophy prior to being called out. He also did not mention their slavish devotion to Stalin. Their personal papers divulge their loyalty to Stalin and his minions. Most of them also denied the murders, the gulags and atrocities that Stalin inflicted ever occurred or existed. Finally it is hard to take seriously millionaires with their mansions and servants actually believed in equal sharing of material wealth. If so, they would have voluntarily divided up their riches. None of them ever did. I should ad that the gentleman does not understand true free market capitalism which is transactions between 2 or more people where both sides benefit. He seems to think what we have today (economic fascism) is the same as capitalism. it is not. The commentator (I am assuming he is responsible for the content and not just hired due to his British accent), should have some time looking at the other side of this argument instead of giving us the usual devoid of the facts version we have all come to know. In other words don't be intellectually lazy.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS = FASCISM DISGUISED AS MANNERS (As a term, "Political correctness" originated in a publication of the Soviet Communists [Pravda? Isvestia?] during the 1920s)
Gordon Lawrence: You like to ASS-U-ME,, don't you? The idea of "thought crime" is a tool for tyrants. You may as well call a shovel "Communist" because Communists used them! The idea of "political correctness" was around long before Marx or Engels drew first breath. I've seen one American post-Revoloution and pre-1812 example. What is the difference between Communism and Capitalism? In a capitalist system, one person exploits another, but in a Communist system, it's the other way around!
If the term originates in a communist publication as you say then by definition it is of communist origin. If you are talking about the concept as opposed to the name for the concept then you need to differentiate as you cannot ASS-U-ME that the reader would automatically do the same.
Gordon Lawrence: Are all man-made objects in Earth orbit Communist because Sputnik was the first such satellite? That fact was announced in many a Communist publication! We Americans didn't have a space program at that time. Does that make "space exploration" communist? Please explain! Inquiring minds want to know!
Gordon Lawrence: Should you trouble to read my original post, you may notice its third word is FASCISM, and the only word you seem to have noticed was the 19th word, in parenthese and not in ALL CAPS. If you can hold an entire 25-or-30 word thought in your head all by yourself, you made a deliberate choice to distort my meaning with hostile intent; if you can't hold such a thought in your head, what are you doing here?
Yan Toha we have the rights now so goodbye feminism, hello egalitarianism, but agree to disagree on this, I care about your random opinion as much as you care about mine.😊
Ever wondered why M*A*S*H* (the film, that is) is so irreverently anti-American? The screenplay came from S. J. Perlman, who had just come off the blacklist and had a lot of bones to pick.
Ernest Bywater No it's pretty much the same. People want livable wages and the oligarchs fight back to keep their precious money. People want to have free healthcare like the rest of the world and the oligarchs pay off politicians to keep them paying their dues. People want job security in an age that robots are stealing jobs faster than they create new ones, and the oligarchs fund better robots to replace us with. It's not different. It is exactly the same. The middle class is disappearing and our money is worth less and less each year, even as we get paid the same.
The discussion in the topic was how the anti-socialist conservatives in Hollywood were going overboard against communism. Today the socialist in Hollywood are going overboard against the conservatives. Which is the point I was making. As to you comments on the workers vs the business men struggle, the major problem with the way that's played out is the biggest loser, by far, in the struggle is the small businessman trying to build up a business for his family, and the next worst hit is the poorest of the workers because the small businesses can no longer afford to employ them. Most of the disappearing money is going to fund government freebies to non-workers and to politicians and government bureaucrats. When i was growing up the way to get what they now call a liveable wage was to develop the skills to get a better wage after having entered the work force with next to no skills or no skills and being paid next to nothing, just enough to survive on. Now those very same jobs no longer exist for the job entry market because the wages have been pushed up on the claim they have to be a liveable wage, so the employers will now only employ skilled an experienced people in the jobs. great move that was. No place to enter the work force now.
Ernest Bywater I don't necessarily think it is fair to cry about being oppressed when conservatives control all 3 branches of government, at least for the next year or so. As for Hollywood, they've gotten a bit too pc for my tastes, but they're no more socialist than any other group. Social and economic liberalism are not the same thing. They are two different axes on the political spectrum
Firstly, I wasn't crying about being oppressed. I simply pointed out that the situation is now the exact opposite of what was mentioned in the video clip, and that the people in charge are being just as abusive to those in Hollywood and conducting propaganda as those mentioned in the video. The situation is just the same, all that's changed is who's picking on who. Since I don't live or work in Hollywood it's hard for them to oppress me directly. However, that doesn't mean I should stand aside and let them abuse others when I can speak up about it. Mind you, those supporting the socialist agenda in Hollywood and want the world socialist state will do their best to see anything I saw is destroyed or ignored.
Disney also gave the huac the names of the people who organized the strike against him. Their careers were also destroyed These days of you dare to criticize Isreals policies you will be blacklisted
Oh no, not you again Simon - since I'm as usually in no mood for your superficial speed talking sessions,' I'm out'ta here !! (Can't you CLEARLY state in you titles that is you? That way I will not not get tricked by an intriguing title)
Not so many reds in the US in 50s as in Praha at the same time but there were so senator Mccharty wan´t that wrong even when he is constantly ridiculed today.
It entertains me to analyze everything you say and I decided to watch every video of yours until I find a lie. Strangely enough, here I did not spot a lie (as I am not informed enough...names, places, circumstances, context) until you mentioned John Wayne. So, here I stopped watching after 7 full minutes. You are getting better, but still cannot help lying and bending the truth. 'Watching you bro....
Now it's the opposite. Have a different opinion about Feminism? BLACKLIST! Don't have a black person in your film? BLACKLIST! Think it is strange that a woman is peeing in the urinal next to you? BLACKLIST! (I'm not fucking kidding about the last one.) Whilst in a major US City, a very butch-woman straight up turned around and squatted into a urinal in the mens room and said "WTF you lookin' at?" So not wanting to have my ass kicked in the bathroom by a 225 lb. She-Biker-Bitch from Hell,I quietly smirked to myself, shook it extra fast and zipped up. TRUE STORY.
In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life. He replied, "I wouldn't know. I've only ever killed communists."
Of course now i understand things have changed so if you have conservative political viewpoints you are blacklisted. Without researching James Woods comes to mind.
“Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it”; and that definitely applies to this period.
“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.”
-Martin Niemöller
That was awesome. I've actually never heard that quote before. But.... BLACKLIST!! You're about to be blacklisted! We're going to need you to go ahead and give us your Facebook Page Info. We have... questions for your friends.
Actually was: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
Nothing about communists.
Zandandido - when this famous quote was made, the communists were the enemy of the whole world. The poem is about how could the Shoah have happened, in a country like Germany?
But the USA is hardly the whole world is it?
Knutt not quite how the poem goes but the point is well taken
The convoluted systems in place to preserve power never cease to amaze me.
that's two of us my friend ♊🙏
That was really interesting. Great work Simon & Company!
rush1er love your avatar
The Book ."Johnny Got His Gun".which was written by Dalton Trumbo,inspired Metallica's James Hetfield to write the song "One".
Correct title is "Johnny got his gun" It's a harrowing story.
Oh ok!!
I didn't know they owned the movie.I do remember him saying that he read the book.
"The land of the free".
Is everything perfect in your country?
lol what? Of course not.
Yes, but only if you aren't a communist
All of this is a lye invented by Hollywood because they are still a bunch of commies. Reason for the 'blacklisting' was not because of what they where saying but because of bad box office returns.
It's only free if you blindly agree. If you look back at us history whenever a crisis comes the us decides that you don't really need civil liberties
High Noon did not portray a corrupt sheriff. In fact he is seen as noble as he stands his ground when no one else will help him out with the bad guys who are coming to town to kill him. At the end he guns down the bad guys and leaves his job in disgust.
Look forward to any post from all your channels !
#5 I don't remember the sheriff in High Noon being corrupt.
You know things have gone too far when America gets so angry they try to call out Humphrey Bogart for communism.
sheep lead to slaughter... 🙏
house of unamerican activities was unamerican.
Great video! I had no idea about some of these celebrities... fascinating
Great video!Thank you!
LOL I thought it's about the series Blacklist,but this vid was a nice surprise,interesting,educating.....keep up the great work Simon!
Back up the sherrif in High Noon is NOT corrupt. He is stalwart, brave and true. Several killers whom the sherrif put in prison are out and headed to the town for revenge. The townspeople won't back him up because of cowardice. They fear death and the destruction of their town. So they would rather have the sheriff run away and placate the criminals. THAT is what John Wayne had a problem with
The Sheriff in high noon was not corrupt, John Wayne objected to the Sheriff throwing his badge in the dirt and leaving, the town's people abandoned the Sheriff and hid.
I'm Canadian, and when I was younger like 8 to 10 I used to secretly wish I was from America cuz well... it was America, and all my favorite actors were from there or lived there, but now that I'm older I'm so glad I was born in Canada lmao
It's cool that you are glad you were born in Canada but I have to ask, have you ever been to America?
#3 Nancy Reagan was on Ron's list of communists? How weird is that?
... very weird
John Wayne sold out many of the people that helped him become a legend... Now, that's as American is it gets!
well they were actually communists so john wayne is a hero.
@@seanp3302 ya now Hollywood is a democrat propaganda machine. Who would of thought.
Great video!
Imagine what Joseph McCarthy & company would think of Hollywood today...
Why today, just look at the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. The character satirically based off of McCarthy is realistically made to look like a power-hungry pathological liar who then is assassinated.
Imagine what Joseph McCarthy would think of Trump who is cozy with Putin and Russian oligarchs, married a communist, and dissing the FBI.
mrs mucha lol!! No Obstuction no Collusion!!!
Doubtless, McCarthy and friends would be screaming trump supporters.
Awesome video Simon! I had no idea the relation between communist feminism and American sexism.
Love the content. Hate the interruption ads. Will try to stay subscribed. Please stop interrupting the content, esp repeatedly.
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Simon's audio recording of the english wikipedia article for "red scare" is still on wikipedia.
The Sheriff in "High Noon" was heroic not corrupt!! What movie did your scriptwriter see!
This guy gets his "Facts" screwed up quite a bit.
Breaking bass Brian Cranston didn’t you mean malcom in the middles?
hollywood=american values LOL really?
yes really. for most kids the tv and the internet is their surrogate parent , while the real parents work themselves to death. that's america. kids learn their values from talking heads on the screen, whom they see more often than their parents.
In High Noon, Gary Cooper was NOT corrupt; he was honest, honorable (almost pathologically so) and courageous! Get your facts straight before trying to foist your in-American politics on us!
I'm guessing that they changed the script becuase they were accused of being commies.
Boy, how times have changed. Not even for the better either, more of a reverse.
Doesn't the Hollywood blacklist still exist, just in a different form? Isn't it true that conservatives and Republicans in Hollywood now lose work because of their political beliefs?? Don't they get their shows cancelled for speaking their minds???
8:16....when all you have is a really small tie so you just hike your pants up and hope nobody notices.
A shameful chapter in American history.
jim kaljic chapter??? Who said it ended
kyle lunarioum the people who voted Trump, that's who ;)
Grace Gonzales...Turkeys voting for Thanks Giving springs to mind with that comment.
@Kyle kunarioum well it could be considered one chapter amongst many.
jim kaljic its still happens now
Its the opposite now. Hollywood will blacklist you now if you are conservative.
Joseph Ybarra
1 the creators of Hollywood
2 Hollywood communism trials
3 Myron C Fagan red flags over Hollywood
4 E Michael Jones culture wars
5 NWO communism through the back door
...type these into UA-cam
triggered crybaby Trumpster
So John Wayne was correct for his reasoning to support the "witch hunt".
Here we have an example of conservative persecution complex. You just watched a video about real blacklisting and you say that?
wait a minute, some dumbаsses are denying the validity of your statement, and in very broken english attacking you based on the groundless assumption that youre a conservative lol i cant believe people this stupid exist
It's a delicate dilemma... in a country that values personal freedom, that must include the freedom to choose communism, and other alternative goverment- which would ultimately remove those same freedoms.
The Hollywood blacklisting took the fear communism too far, of course.
But it's strange how some people are pro communism- or it's lead-in, socialism- in this age of the fear of all things Russian.
I'm listening True national communism has never actually been done before. It's been attempted, but someone always comes along and fucks it up along the way. Soviet union was well on its way until Stalin seized power and essentially became a fascist dictator running a socialist nation. You see, communism is not the problem. People are. People will fight tooth and nail for every last dime they can scrape together, even if that means starving, killing, and torturing people who have less power than you. That is why we need a government, because anarchy will lead to one man ruling a kingdom of bones. This is also why we need checks and balances in our government. However, as this video demonstrates, the checks and balances do not always work. Regular people had their constitutional rights stolen from them in a court which is sworn to uphold the constitution. They were convicted of thoughtcrime, guilty only of having an opinion that those in power disagree with.
The bottom line is that people cannot be trusted with power, and neither can governments. That is why we must balance a free private sector with a government that is divided such that each branch steals power away from the others. Almost like crabs in a bucket. Each branch steals from a different branch, all while getting stolen from themselves. The net distribution of power is then even.
That's just the excuse given for the failure of communism and socialism. "Oh the people who knew it best just didn't do it right. We can do it right and it will totally work this time." As I recall that was also the mantra when Hugo Chavez was elected. As to your desirous reason for government I like the American reason better, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."
@@Kalroy it's no excuse, it's the truth. Read about what communism is supposed to be, and then read about how it went down in those countries, and you'll find out that there's never been a communist country in the world.
The sheriff in High Noon was not corrupt. Have you even seen the movie? The sheriff is trying to raise a posse to help him deal with a character named Frank Miller and his criminal gang. The townsfolk are either indifferent to the sherrif or hostile to him, as many of the locals are friends of Miller. Wayne's problem with High Noon was with the last scene, where the sherrif [played by Gary Cooper] throws away his badge.
My Uncle was a Professor of Russian History in California. He was blacklisted because anyone who would teach the history of a communist country must be a communist himself😢
The President's Mystery was not based on any book by Sinclair Lewis. I'm very familiar with Lewis' works. The president was FDR who challenged 5 writers to come up with a mystery story. On the credits it says the film was inspired by FDR and lists all 6 writers. The screenplay was partnered by two men, one being Nathan West who wrote Miss Lonelyhearts and others.
I still can't believe they gave Hedda Hopper a star on the Walk of Fame.
They had to or she would have been bitchy about them...
Notification squad! Where you at!
Actually, Reagan removed his soon-to-be second wife from the Blacklist because it had her confused with another Nancy Davis. Two popular names that I think were even more popular back then.
There's a Disney buried in my local Cathedral, Wakefield, can't remember his DOD but will go have a look next time I'm in town
Actually the woman's movie was very popular. My favorite is Mildred Pierce where a woman creates her own line of coffee shops on her own after her husband walks out on her. She even takes the blame for a murder her daughter committed.
I've seen most of the movies that they mentioned. I Can Get it for You Wholesale is an amazing movie!
I remember seeing a movie where John Wayne played an investigator for the Un-American Activities Committee.
Yeah. It was mostly set in Hawaii a few years prior to statehood. I think the title was BIG JIM McCLAIN. I don't recall if the the House committee as specified as the employer of Wayne's character.
Joseph McCarthy is my hero.
mine too
Based
"and then one day, they came for me...."
Things like this is just makes me so frustrated I don't even know what to say.
10: None of the ten members of the Hollywood 10 (the beginning of the Blacklist) invoked the 5th Amendment. On the advice of their lawyer, a former assistant district attorney from San Francisco, they declared their right not to answer any questions based on the 1st Amendment. Yes, they were truly that dim. Many people later questioned by congress did invoke the 5th, as they were allowed to do. Therefor, they suffered no judicial consequences.
9: All ten members of the Hollywood 10 were members of the Communist Party USA. That was certainly not illegal, but they kept it secret and registered with the party under assumed names. We know this because the FBI had an agent undercover in the party who was able to snag a copy of the membership roster that listed the actual names with the assumed names.
8: At least seven of the Hollywood 10 were actively involved with trying to secure Communist Party domination of the Screen Writers Guild or the Screen Directors Guild, depending on which union they were members of. Only one of the Hollywood 10 was actually an actor, the others were writers and directors. An effort to gain influence on the Screen Actors Guild was started by the Communists, but they were shut down by the President of that union, Ronald Reagan.
7: Humphrey Bogart, famously photographed at the head of a march defending the Hollywood 10 pulled his support for them when he found out through hearings by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee that there were all actually Communists.
6: The Blacklist was created and maintained, as described at the beginning of this video, by an organization of the Hollywood studios, the MPA. Though the MPA may have paid close attention to Congressional testimony, or lack thereof, the United States Government had nothing to do with creating or maintaining the Blacklist.
5: Sinclair Lewis was a socialist, and the screenwriter named was a card "not" carrying Communist.
4: Abraham Polonsky was a member of the 10 and a Communist.
3: Anti-Communist efforts were strongly supported by both political parties.
2: See number 7 and number 10 above.
1: The Blacklist lasted from 1948 to 1960. Please count on your fingers, that's 12 years, not decades.
Of course, the time and money spent chasing commies in Hollywood was a waste because few people paid attention to whatever propaganda that made it into American movies. The most trenchant Communist propaganda was produced during WWII when we were trying to convince Americans to love Uncle Joe. Of course, as soon as the war was over, Stalin lowered the iron curtain, exploded an A-bomb (design stolen from us by Klaus Fuchs and sent to the Soviets by the Rosenbergs) we needed to change our view by about 180 degrees. Then we hated that Communist propaganda. Ironically, HUAC and their Senate equivalent used the movies that the US Government had encouraged Hollywood to make extolling the virtues of the Soviet Union as prime examples of the extent that propaganda was infiltrating Hollywood. Oh, well.
You forgot to mention Elia Kazan.....
John Wayne's careful dodging of the WWII draft was Un-American.
Many of these entries would have gone viral, had they taken place in this day of social media - in reference to one of your list from a couple of weeks ago. Personally, I also initially thought it was about the series lol.
Interesting video, but two commercials in the same video..... It’s annoying, and breaks my focus while watching. Very frustrating, and turns me off this channel.
Read Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo. It's one of the best books I've ever read
This is my favourite of the top tenz. Provides a harrowing tale of the zealousness with which the powerful have attempted to equate any attempts at human improvement with communism/Socialism. We see it today with environmental protection, living wages, public healthcare etc.
Stalin must and would be impressed with the success of propaganda in a putatively free and democratic country
You do realize that after the Berlin wall fell documents showed that in fact the SSSR was funding all of the 10 and that they in fact where pushing commie propaganda?
"High Noon"?! that's considered a classic! WTH! lol
The big problem with many conservatives is that they think criticism of any law enforcement is criticism against ALL law enforcement.
Their common refrains is: Cops have a tough job, I support the police
I would be labeled as conservative ( I think labels are stupid btw) and I think law enforcement is as corrupt as any government out there and that cops should be held to a higher standard when they break the law than non-police people because of they are cops. Yeah they may have a tough job but that's why they can be pricks with badges, however that shouldn't give them the ability to make the laws up as they go along or be above the law.
in the arts , VERY FEW have the same assumed values as ' regular ' or ' standard ' people are considered to have , and lead their lives accordingly - which made them easy blackmail targets for the studios or anyone else who wanted something from them , and who wanted to use their celebrity for self-gain ! the studios were also blackmailed !
The Hollywood Blacklist was a scare on entertainment.Tony
also a way for studios to have power over there workers. why no mention of Cary Grant?
So Hollywood political tactics never changed. Just the tribes.
The liberals demand the same from the movie industry for expressing the wrong opinions..
Oh how horrible. You getting treated how you treat other people. What a shame! Life must be so hard for you? Need a cookie to feel better??
Some of those blacklisted scriptwriters got jobs in England working on the Robin Hood television series duri g the 1950s.
Plot twist- Mccarthy was right about everyone.
This fellow glossed over a lot of facts. He seems to imply that those involved who were Communists in Hollywood were just a bunch of innocent weaklings.
He fails to mention those "weaklings" in Hollywood and their thugs (Herb Sorrell and company) did physical damage to people and property who disagreed with their Communist philosophy prior to being called out.
He also did not mention their slavish devotion to Stalin. Their personal papers divulge their loyalty to Stalin and his minions. Most of them also denied the murders, the gulags and atrocities that Stalin inflicted ever occurred or existed.
Finally it is hard to take seriously millionaires with their mansions and servants actually believed in equal sharing of
material wealth. If so, they would have voluntarily divided up their riches. None of them ever did.
I should ad that the gentleman does not understand true free market capitalism which is transactions between 2 or more people where both sides benefit. He seems to think what we have today (economic fascism) is the same as capitalism. it is not.
The commentator (I am assuming he is responsible for the content and not just hired due to his British accent), should have some time looking at the other side of this argument instead of giving us the usual devoid of the facts version we have all come to know. In other words don't be intellectually lazy.
They looked for reds when they should of kept their eyes out for blues.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS = FASCISM DISGUISED AS MANNERS (As a term, "Political correctness" originated in a publication of the Soviet Communists [Pravda? Isvestia?] during the 1920s)
Wouldn't that make it Communism?
Gordon Lawrence: You like to ASS-U-ME,, don't you? The idea of "thought crime" is a tool for tyrants. You may as well call a shovel "Communist" because Communists used them! The idea of "political correctness" was around long before Marx or Engels drew first breath. I've seen one American post-Revoloution and pre-1812 example. What is the difference between Communism and Capitalism? In a capitalist system, one person exploits another, but in a Communist system, it's the other way around!
If the term originates in a communist publication as you say then by definition it is of communist origin. If you are talking about the concept as opposed to the name for the concept then you need to differentiate as you cannot ASS-U-ME that the reader would automatically do the same.
Gordon Lawrence: Are all man-made objects in Earth orbit Communist because Sputnik was the first such satellite? That fact was announced in many a Communist publication! We Americans didn't have a space program at that time. Does that make "space exploration" communist? Please explain! Inquiring minds want to know!
Gordon Lawrence: Should you trouble to read my original post, you may notice its third word is FASCISM, and the only word you seem to have noticed was the 19th word, in parenthese and not in ALL CAPS. If you can hold an entire 25-or-30 word thought in your head all by yourself, you made a deliberate choice to distort my meaning with hostile intent; if you can't hold such a thought in your head, what are you doing here?
Pure madness!!!
WTF in High Noon Cooper's Will Kane is the polar opposite of corrupt!
Wow, Tatiana was a looker.
the good is bad & the bad is good
the ugly is ugly
I feel need the need to mention this: America had the Hollywood Blacklist. The Soviet Union had the gulag.
what a bunch of class bs, control with fear... sound eerily familiar!!! 🙏
Hollywoo...
Wait, a woman choosing a career over love is feminism now? Okay.
Having the right to is.
Yan Toha we have the rights now so goodbye feminism, hello egalitarianism, but agree to disagree on this, I care about your random opinion as much as you care about mine.😊
It's always been a pillar of feminism.
Anti-communists acting like communists...
The reason why communists strikes wasn't for income reasons the accusing of non communists they were communists
Ever wondered why M*A*S*H* (the film, that is) is so irreverently anti-American? The screenplay came from S. J. Perlman, who had just come off the blacklist and had a lot of bones to pick.
Ring Lardner Jr.
@@kathleenharris3403 right, thanks.
This video proves that Reagan and Wayne were such big jerks.
human conditioning
Hello dot
do something on hollywood's soft power.
Interesting that today the problem in is the exact reverse with with socialists attacking non-socialist.
Ernest Bywater No it's pretty much the same. People want livable wages and the oligarchs fight back to keep their precious money. People want to have free healthcare like the rest of the world and the oligarchs pay off politicians to keep them paying their dues. People want job security in an age that robots are stealing jobs faster than they create new ones, and the oligarchs fund better robots to replace us with. It's not different. It is exactly the same. The middle class is disappearing and our money is worth less and less each year, even as we get paid the same.
Ernest Bywater yup, and surpressing the 1st amendment of conservatives everywhere
The discussion in the topic was how the anti-socialist conservatives in Hollywood were going overboard against communism. Today the socialist in Hollywood are going overboard against the conservatives. Which is the point I was making.
As to you comments on the workers vs the business men struggle, the major problem with the way that's played out is the biggest loser, by far, in the struggle is the small businessman trying to build up a business for his family, and the next worst hit is the poorest of the workers because the small businesses can no longer afford to employ them. Most of the disappearing money is going to fund government freebies to non-workers and to politicians and government bureaucrats.
When i was growing up the way to get what they now call a liveable wage was to develop the skills to get a better wage after having entered the work force with next to no skills or no skills and being paid next to nothing, just enough to survive on. Now those very same jobs no longer exist for the job entry market because the wages have been pushed up on the claim they have to be a liveable wage, so the employers will now only employ skilled an experienced people in the jobs. great move that was. No place to enter the work force now.
Ernest Bywater I don't necessarily think it is fair to cry about being oppressed when conservatives control all 3 branches of government, at least for the next year or so. As for Hollywood, they've gotten a bit too pc for my tastes, but they're no more socialist than any other group. Social and economic liberalism are not the same thing. They are two different axes on the political spectrum
Firstly, I wasn't crying about being oppressed. I simply pointed out that the situation is now the exact opposite of what was mentioned in the video clip, and that the people in charge are being just as abusive to those in Hollywood and conducting propaganda as those mentioned in the video. The situation is just the same, all that's changed is who's picking on who. Since I don't live or work in Hollywood it's hard for them to oppress me directly. However, that doesn't mean I should stand aside and let them abuse others when I can speak up about it. Mind you, those supporting the socialist agenda in Hollywood and want the world socialist state will do their best to see anything I saw is destroyed or ignored.
communists and fascists are the same
Disney also gave the huac the names of the people who organized the strike against him. Their careers were also destroyed
These days of you dare to criticize Isreals policies you will be blacklisted
I remember reading John Wayne disliked High Noon because at the end Will Kane threw his sheriff's badge on the ground.
Oh no, not you again Simon - since I'm as usually in no mood for your superficial speed talking sessions,' I'm out'ta here !!
(Can't you CLEARLY state in you titles that is you? That way I will not not get tricked by an intriguing title)
I think you mean DURING the great depression
Hollywood 👎🏽
First I guess
You overlooked Doris Day's obscene clamour to brief stardom by 'shopping' over half the Hollywood technicians and actors with true talent...
I usually enjoy these lists but this one is nonsense. Razorfist has a much better look at the Soviet ties to Hollywood. Much better researched too.
Not so many reds in the US in 50s as in Praha at the same time but there were so senator Mccharty wan´t that wrong even when he is constantly ridiculed today.
The red scare still exists in that backwards country ;)
I believe you mean 'Backwoods' country...
Does any of the blame go to you Mr. President? Reagan : yes because for many years I was a democrat notice how they leave important things out
It entertains me to analyze everything you say and I decided to watch every video of yours until I find a lie. Strangely enough, here I did not spot a lie (as I am not informed enough...names, places, circumstances, context) until you mentioned John Wayne. So, here I stopped watching after 7 full minutes. You are getting better, but still cannot help lying and bending the truth.
'Watching you bro....
We all know how Nancy Davis avoided blacklisting.
Welcome to the Occupation...
How much has changed since then?
Now it's the opposite. Have a different opinion about Feminism? BLACKLIST! Don't have a black person in your film? BLACKLIST! Think it is strange that a woman is peeing in the urinal next to you? BLACKLIST! (I'm not fucking kidding about the last one.) Whilst in a major US City, a very butch-woman straight up turned around and squatted into a urinal in the mens room and said "WTF you lookin' at?" So not wanting to have my ass kicked in the bathroom by a 225 lb. She-Biker-Bitch from Hell,I quietly smirked to myself, shook it extra fast and zipped up. TRUE STORY.
In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life. He replied, "I wouldn't know. I've only ever killed communists."
mmm seems rather a biased point of view listen to Allan Ryskind and Ronald Radosh
Of course now i understand things have changed so if you have conservative political viewpoints you are blacklisted. Without researching James Woods comes to mind.
pitch fork and torch time ..../AGAIN!!!!!
Thanks TopTenz.😊 Thanks john wayne for bravely and so painfully wasting away over years with lung cancer? Surely an inspiration to us all?😁