In 1956 , RKO released '' The Brave One '' , a film about the friendship between a young Mexican boy and a bull who is destined to die in the bullring but is spared by the crowd . Much controversy surrounded the film when its screenwriter , " Robert Rich " , received an Academy Award for Best Story . Orson Welles later said , " Dalton Trumbo wrote it under a pseudonym ; he could n't take credit because he was a victim of the blacklist . " So nobody came up to get the Oscar , and everybody said , " What a shame — poor Dalton Trumbo , victim of McCarthyism . " But , in '' fact '' , the story was not his or mine but Robert Flaherty 's . The King brothers were with RKO , and they got the rights for it — and Trumbo took a great big invisible bow . Which Flaherty deserved . " '' The Brave One '' illustrates the extent to which plagiarism could become a modus operandi for low-budget studio film production , " wrote film scholar Catherine L. Benamou , " legitimated by the studios ' legal ownership of script material and footage , and euphemized as the productive recycling of outdated or abandoned projects . " Benamou also cites similarities between a script Welles wrote after returning to the United States , when he hoped to salvage some of the " Carnaval " footage , and another RKO film . " There is a notable resonance between the later version of the ' Michael Guard ' script and the basic plot and setting of the high-budget '' Notorious '' , directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released with considerable success by RKO in 1946 , " Benamou wrote . The plot involves two European Americans in Brazil , one of them a woman spy who discovers a clandestine Nazi operation . Finding it plausible that the Welles script may have been used , Benamou called for further research
Academy Award
29th Academy Awards
It's All True (film)