What if you were suspected of being a Communist? Think about it. That's what actually happened in the McCarthy Era. Senator William McCarthy, without any evidence except for what he pulled out of his butt, accused everyone who disagreed with him of being a Communist, until he was brought down by two very brave people. One was Senator Margarate Chase Smith of Maine and the other was Edward R. Murrow of CBS News, as depicted in another movie set in that time period. This isn't about that movie. This is about Howard Prince, played by Woody Allen, who's a restaurant cashier. Howard poses as a writer to sell the scripts of blacklisted writers. How does Howard do? That's for me to know and you to find out. Watch the movie. The movie closes with Frank Sinatra singing Young At Heart and all the screenwriters who were blacklisted and when they were blacklisted. This is a black period in our history. We can't allow one man to ever again threaten his opposition into silence. Edmund Burke said it: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
