Review – Guilty by Suspicion

Though I’m not giving this an absolute-top-of-the-scale rating, nonetheless I see some merit in keeping a copy of this around. Anytime I start watching some old movie extolling the virtues of the FBI during the Hoover years or get engrossed in a James Ellroy novel glamorizing “the life,” I could use a picture like this to bring me back to reality. Robert DeNiro heads a cast of talented actors no doubt drawn by the chance to make a solid picture about a dark time in the history of the movie business: the Hollywood blacklist. It gets a little soapy in spots, but overall it’s a well-made reminder of the dangers of letting people like McCarthy take over the country. Worth seeing