His first feature, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), is an allegory about intolerance, and 1950’s The Lawless is a critique of the violent mob. As a result, he ended up leaving the United States to escape the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, settling in the United Kingdom in 1953-but not before making a name for himself in Hollywood with a handful of economical and politically incisive movies. Losey was politicized in the radical theater of New York in the thirties, collaborated with Bertolt Brecht, and later joined the Communist Party. The repeated exiles and displacements that brought about that trajectory are mirrored in a highly diverse set of films (more than thirty features) that earned Losey a reputation as a brilliant but difficult man and a director capable of duds as well as masterpieces. Klein in France in late 1975 and early 1976, he was just entering the last decade of a long, varied career that had taken him from his native American Midwest to Paris via New York, Moscow, Hollywood, Italy, England, Spain, Mexico, and Norway.
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