Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (1947)

COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 15 how some of these stories come out. Sometimes four or five of these writers contribute. These fellows contribute and then three other good writers are doing the most of it, but they contribute some things and they get the screen credit. I should have had more information as to who collaborated with them. They didn't do anything in the western pictures. As far as Kocli is concerned, he was on 20 scripts, but he never got anywhere because he always started out with big messages and I used to take them out. This fellow was on contract and I couldn't let him go. He is now working for Samuel Goldwyn. I can't remember the name of the picture he is working on. Ring Lardner, Jr., was on several pictures. He didn't put any message in The Kokomo Kid. Or Emmett Lavery, he has no credits. We throw his stuff in all the way and pile it up. John Howard Lawson, Action in the North Atlantic. Albert Maltz in Pride of the Marines. Mr. Thomas. Did he get much into Pride of the Marines? Mr. Warner. No ; in my opinion he didn't get in anything because everything they endeavor to write in, if the;y photographed it, I cut it out. I ran those films myself. There is one little thing. where the fellow on the train said, "My name is Jones, so I can't get a .iob." It was this kid named Diamond, a Jewish boy, in the marines, a hero at Guadalcanal. In fact, I had a couple of boys run the picture 3 or 4 days ago and I read it. Dr. John Leach said something about it, but there is nothing to it. If there is, I don't know where it is. I have had experiences from 1916 or 1917. I made My Four Years in Germany and I produced that in New York right during the First World War. I can look at a mirror and see three faces. You can see anything you want to see and you can write anything you want to, but there is nothing in my pictures that I cannot qualify being there, with the exception that it might have gotten by me, because you can't be superhuman. Some of these lines have innuendos and double meanings, and things like that, and you have to take 8 or 10 Harvard law courses to find out what they mean. Mr. Stripling. They are very subtle. Mr. Warner. Exceedingly so. Rossen, I gave him a credit for They Won't Forget and Dust Be My Destiny. Erwin Shaw, The Hard Way. Dalton Trumbo worked in our place in 1935 and 1936. He had credit for The Kid From Kokomo, and so has Ring Lardner, Jr. It gives you an idea ; they work in pairs. All he is credited with is The Road Gang. I can't remember that. That was 12 years ago. John Wexley had a picture called City for Conquest in 1940. Some of these pictures I have called off were produced during the war. Naturally, they were pictures aimed at aiding the war effort. They were realistic. Take Action in the North Atlantic, which was produced for the merchant marine because at the time they could not get proper enlistments and all that. I made this film. We did not pull any punches. It was a good, hard film of the real life of the merchant marine. I don't know whether you saw it or not. Mr. Stripling. Yes. Mr. Warnke. Naturally, John Howard Lawson tried to swing a lot of things in there, but to my knowledge there wasn't anything. Mr. Stripling. John Howard Lawson did try to put stuff in? Mr. WARNEK._Yes ; I would say he did in one form or another. Mr. Stripling. All right, are you through with the list? Mr. Warnek. No ; the Epstein brothers did very good work at one time, but they fell off. Mr. Thomas. Did they do any part of Mission to Moscow? Mr. Warner. Their name is not on here as credit for that. Mr. Stripling. Who did Mission to Moscow? Mr. Warner. Howard Koch, 1943. Mr. Thomas. Did he do any part of Edge of Darkness? Mr. Warner. No ; just a moment, please. Robert Rosson did that in 1942. That was a war subject, too. Mr. Thomas. You did not do North Star, did you? Mr. Warner. No ; we did not. Mr. Thomas. You did not do Song of Russia? Mr. Warner. No ; we did not. The Epstein brothers worked on a picture called Animal Kingdom. As I recall, tnat was aimed at the capitalistic system — not exactly, but the rich man is always the villain. Of course, those fellows getting