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Fellow Traveller (1989)
Director: Philip Saville
Cast: Ron Silver, Imogen Stubbs, Hart Bochner, Daniel J. Travanti
Runtime91 min
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In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
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Fans of intricate dramas and psychological thrillers will appreciate the nuanced performances and thought-provoking exploration of the destructive effects of McCarthyism on the entertainment industry in the 1989 film Fellow Traveller, directed by Philip Saville and starring Ron Silver, Imogen Stubbs, and Daniel J. Travanti.
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A fellow traveller is a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who co-operates in the organization's politics, without being a formal member. In the early history of the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman Anatoly Lunacharsky coined the term poputchik ; it was later popularized by Leon Trotsky to identify the vacillating intellectual supporters of the Bolshevik government led by Vladimir Lenin (1917–1924).
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