Themes: Writer's Life, Crisis of Conscience, Redemption
Main Cast: Ron Silver, Hart Bochner, Imogen Stubbs, Daniel J. Travanti, Katherine Borowitz
Release Year: 1989
Country: US/UK
Run Time: 97 minutes
Plot
Filmed in Britain, Fellow Traveller is set during the waning days of Hollywood's Communist "witchhunt". The film begins with the suicide of "unfriendly" movie star Hart Bochner; we then briefly flash back to the friendship between Bochner and his close friend, blacklisted writer Ron Silver. Working pseudonymously in England, Silver seeks out the late Bochner's girl friend Imogen Stubbs, who has not renounced her leftist views. He has an affair with Imogen, and through her regains his commitment to his own political preferences. Incidentally, the TV series for which Silver writes in Fellow Traveller is the popular The Adventures of Robin Hood, which actually did hire blacklistees in the mid-1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Richard Wilson - Sir Hugo Armstrong; Jonathan Hyde - Sheriff of Nottingham (Robin Hood cast); Briony McRoberts - Maid Marion (Robin Hood cast); Julian Fellowes - D'Arcy; Doreen Mantle - Landlady; David Patrick O'Hara - Ronnie Wilson; Roger Hammond - Tudor Hamilton; Trevor Cooper - Detective Sergeant; Nicholas Jones - Detective Inspector; Angus MacInnes - Lawyer; Mac McDonald - G-Man; Sarah Trigger - Gloria; Robin Hooper - TV Dentist; Guy Manning - Floor Manager
Credit
Philip Saville - Director, Greg Miller - Editor, Colin Towns - Composer (Music Score), Gavin Davies - Production Designer, Michael Wearing - Producer, Michael Eaton - Screenwriter
