Arlington Resident and Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Glenn Frankel

"High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic," focuses on one of Hollywood’s most revered movies: "High Noon" won four Oscars in 1953, became a cultural touchstone, and is often cited by presidents as a favorite film, celebrating physical courage and moral fortitude in the face of overwhelming odds.

Yet what has largely been overlooked is that "High Noon" was written and filmed during the height of the Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot, its screenwriter, Carl Foreman, was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. For Carl it all came down to this: either betray his friends or lose his job and the golden career he had worked so hard to achieve.

Frankel's talk will focus on the movie, the men who made it, and the political era in which it was made.

About the author:

Glenn Frankel worked for many years for the Washington Post, serving as bureau chief in London, Southern Africa and Jerusalem, where he won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for “balanced and sensitive reporting” of Israel and the Palestinians. His last book, "The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend," was a national bestseller and named one of Library Journal’s top ten books of 2013.

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