Julian Blaustein: An Unusual Movie Producer in Cold War Hollywood

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Beteiligte: Ceplair, Larry
In: Film History, 21, 2009, 3, S. 257-275
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Indiana University Press and John Libbey Publishing
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Umfang: 257-275
ISSN: 0892-2160
1553-3905
veröffentlicht in: Film History
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstorfilm
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<p>Very few movie producers in Hollywood challenged the Cold War proscription against criticism of United States policy. Julian Blaustein, however, established his career as an independent producer by putting together the package for Broken Arrow and selling it to Twentieth Century-Fox. Blaustein knowingly hired Albert Maltz, a blacklisted screenwriter, to adapt the novel on which it was based. Blaustein then produced one of the earliest pleas for world peace, the science-fiction classic: The Day the Earth Stood Still. But his third effort, Storm Center, a challenge to censorship, failed, and his independent production company failed with it.</p>