Well made but this movie was ghastly in how disingenuous it was with...

Whilst the film portrays him as this outspoken though seemingly typical '50s liberal, the real Dalton Trumbo actually supported and advocated the regimes of Stalinist Russia and even North Korea under Kim Il Sung. He was also an ardent isolationist who excused Nazi Germany's invasion with an article that read "to the vanquished all conquerors are inhunman". He often contradicted himself to defend the Soviet Union during the late forties and through the fifties (where the movie is set). In fact, here's a better link than what I can say proper. The movie's hypocrisy in the extent to which they cover up Trumbo's ideological extremism while criticizing the blacklist is astounding.

http://www.libertylawsite.org/2015/11/30/film-the-legend/



What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.