OFF THE BLACKLIST
My thanks to your publication for David Elliott’s review of G. Cabrera Infante’s new volume of movie critiques (“A Twentieth Century Job,” Sept. 20) and to Elliott for his mention of the film “Torero.”
Few people are aware that it exists; perhaps not even Mr. Cabrera Infante is aware that it was written and directed by a man who (like himself) felt obliged to live in exile.
Blacklisted in the late 1940s and taking up residence in Mexico City in the 1950s, my father’s name appears on the screen in translation (a function of political necessity) as Hugo Mozo (Hugo Butler was his real name).
His family will always be grateful to the country and the culture which embraced us in that epoch.
MICHAEL BUTLER, SANTA BARBARA
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