"Guilty by Suspicion" which was made in 1990, is a movie that tells the story of after WWII and during Cold War time, a story that even today divides those who named names, and those who did not. People can never forget those who refused to betray their principles.
The movie tells the story of a fictional director named David Merrill, played by Robert De Niro as a man who is not a fanatic or hero, but balks at betraying his friends before a group he has no respect for. As the film opens, Merrill has come back from Europe for a conference with Darryl F. Zanuck (Ben Piazza), head of 20th Century-Fox. He has heard things about the hearings, but thinks he won't be involved, because he's no subversive. Sure, he went to a couple of party meetings back in the 1930s, when it was popular in Hollywood to be part of anti-fascist groups, but the party threw him.
out, "for arguing too much.".
He finds that things are not going to go easily. The studio suggests he see a lawyer named Graff played by Sam Wanamaker, himself a blacklist victim. The lawyer explains how everything can be handled behind closed doors. All he has to do is name some names, to "cooperate," and he"ll be cleared to work on his new Fox project. If he doesn't cooperate, there will be public hearings, scandal, and no Fox project.
One of the names HUAC wants him to name is that of his friend Bunny (George Wendt), a writer. Merrill can't do that. He can't betray a friend that way. And so the Fox project is canceled, and he drifts into a nightmare world where nobody will tell him exactly what the rules are, and he cannot find a job anywhere.
David makes a trip to New York, where old Broadway friends betray him when they discover he's blacklisted. He has to listen as Bunny, broken and in tears, confesses that now the committee wants him to name Merrill. And he is a witness to a suicide as a once-famous actress, Patricia Wettig drives her car over a cliff, terrified because her child was taken away as a result of blacklisting.
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