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The brave one dalton trumbo6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s disappointing that his courage and brinkmanship should grace a movie with no attitude of its own – that has the narrow sensibility of a 1980s or 1990s telefilm.Ĭranston nails the elegance of the silver-tongued, indefatigable refusenik, who affected a cigarette holder and typed his scripts in the bathtub or with a parrot on his shoulder. By continuing to get his scripts produced throughout the Fifties, Trumbo made a heroic, if morally complex stand against rabid Red Scare-mongers like the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper ( Helen Mirren) and John Wayne (David James Elliott).
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