Fellow Traveller

A leading American screenwriter arrives in London in the mid-50’s to make a new life. Back in Hollywood, a famous movie star shoots himself. The link between these involves a girl and a history - that of the McCarthy witch hunts and the careers they destroyed. Asa Kaufman (Ron Silver) finds work writing a Robin Hood serial in the eccentric world of Britain’s new ITV, but he can’t escape the psychic and political pressures that drove him into exile. With Daniel J. Travanti.

Credits

director

Philip Saville

producer

Michael Wearing

production company

British Film Institute

Home Box Office

BBC Film Unit

Duration

01:37:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1989

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

37309

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communism - United States

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

History → Communism - United States

History → History

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1989

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