Original sentence: "Another noted that screewnwriter Lester Cole had inserted lines from a famous pro-Loyalist speech by La Pasionaria about it being 'better to die on your feet than to live on your knees' into a pep talk delivered by a football coach.'" Much of the onscreen evidence of Communist influence uncovered by HUAC was feeble at best.(later a screenplay, as well) had been subject to an ideological critique by Hollywood Ten writer John Howard Lawson, whose comments he'd solicited.Although their criticism could be plentiful, stinging, and (sometimes) politically dogmatic, the author was entirely free to accept it or reject it as he or she pleased without incurring the slightest "consequence" or sanction.As historian Gerald Horne describes, many Hollywood screenwriters had joined or associated with the local Communist Party chapter because it "offered a collective to a profession that was enmeshed in tremendous isolation at the typewriter.For all that, evidence that Communists were actually using Hollywood films as vehicles for subversion remained hard to come by.One witness remembered Stander, while performing in a film, whistling the left-wing "Internationale" as his character waited for an elevator.Schulberg reported that the manuscript of his novel What Makes Sammy Run.The significance of such interactions was questionable.Their 'Writers' Clinic' had 'an informal "board" of respected screenwriters'—including Lawson and Ring Lardner Jr.—'who read and commented upon any screenplay submitted to them
Edited sentence: For all that, there is some evidence that Communists were actually using Hollywood films as vehicles for subversion.Most notably, the director Edward Dmytryk admitted [testomony to HUAC, 25th April, 1951] that high ranking American communists such as John Howard Lawson had encouraged him to include communist propaganda in his films