Guilty by Suspicion (DVD, 1998)

The Pressure of Fear

"Guilty by Suspicion" is an excellent movie about the McCarthy era in Hollywood. It centers around the battle a Hollywood director faced when he was suspected of having Communist ties. As the movie progresses, you see how actors, writers and directors were pressured into revealing the names of friends and co-workers suspected of being communists or communist sympathizers, when they were ordinary Americans with no communist sympathies whatsoever, or because they had attended a communist rally out of curiosity years before. The targeted victims were dragged before the McCarthy panel of Inquiry and interrogated, often falsely accused, and were 'guilty by suspicion' rather than by hard evidence. The director around whom the story is constructed, holds to his principles but suffers unjustly for decades even after the McCarthy era ends. It's a sad commentary on what can happen when reason is suffocated by fear and the desire for self preservation. It can and has happened in America. I believe the movie is an excellent addition to anyone's DVD library alongside "Good Night and Good Luck." After viewing it, you may very well ask yourself: "What would I do?"Read full review

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Hollywood Socialists Hypocrites Now

Hard to get past Deniro. He's such a flaming liberal, I kept thinking how many accused of being Communists back then may have been, and how many are socialists/communists hypocrites. Good acting, but wouldn't have missed much if I never watched it.Read full review

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A Great Movie

This is an excellent well film of the FBI probe into communistic accusations against some of the motion picture industries actors, directors, etc, and the subsequent banning of these people for many years A Great Movie
DeNiro is great as always.Read full review

Perfect title

Great movie that everybody should watch

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Good movie!

Great cast in a good story!

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