Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction: The Films of Robert Rossen--A Legacy Lost 5 Part One: The Writer--Craft, Idealism and Ideology 1. A Matter of Experience--From the Lower East Side to Hollywood and the Party 19 2. Stretching the Boundaries of Genre--The First Two Screenplays 29 3. Warner Bros. and the Party--Five Films, Three Years 42 4. Ode to an Era--The Roaring Twenties 52 5. The Party Line and the Writer--Two Warner Films in a Shifting Poitical World 60 6. The War and ­Post-War Worlds on Film--Three with Lewis Milestone 72 Part Two: The Director--Success, Doubt and Disillusion 7.

The Writer Becomes Director--Johnny O'Clock 93 8. The Battle and the Myth, Personal and Political--Body and Soul 102 9. Conicts and Consequences--The First Hearings, 1947 118 10. Power and Betrayal, Personal and Public--All the King's Men 126 11. A Time of Tests, Trials and Fear--The Brave Bulls 143 12. The Political and Moral Turmoil of the Blacklist Era--The Hearings, 1951 153 Part Three: The Director--Blacklisting, Rebellion and Isolation 13. What Is Behaving Decently?--Testifying and Silence 165 14. Starting Anew in Europe--Mambo 175 15.

Seeking the Power and the Glory--Alexander the Great 182 16. The Road Back--Island in the Sun and They Came to Cordura 194 17. At the Top of His Game--The Hustler 211 18. The Forgotten Masterwork and Enigma--Lilith 228 19. An Unfortunate Epilogue--The Legacy Denied 244 Chapter Notes 255 Bibliography 263 Index 267.