“Despite the usual tendency to lump the Hollywood Ten into one amorphous bluster, film director Dmytryk’s compelling memoir vividly particularizes his experi­ence as a member of that group… Some will insist he cynically exploited others to get off the blacklist, but Dmytryk’s forceful explanation of his controversial de­cision to name names is convincing.”—Choice

“This is a book written from the inside of a political hurricane made up of compromises and deceit in which the author, despite his idealistic impulses, managed to find himself. Dmytryk’s effort to fight his way out of blacklisting and back to active participation in the world of film-making is dramatically but appropriately presented.”—Michael Bliss, author of What Goes Around Comes Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme and Justified Lives: Morality and Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah