Giants such as Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Paul Robeson, Arthur Miller and Joseph Losey were among the hundreds denied work.

BBC: Martin Sheen: 'President' under fire

From the start of this bitter 1951 film noir, directed by Joseph Losey, the forces of order are as much a menace as a comfort.

NEWYORKER: The Prowler

The victims include a Joseph Losey-like director (played with amusing snap by Martin Scorsese) and a Dorothy Comingore-like actress (Patricia Wettig, in a stupefying histrionic exhibition).

NEWYORKER: Guilty by Suspicion