 They refuse to directly answer questions, confident that a liberal majority on the Supreme Court will overturn the convictions for Contempt of Congress.Trumbo's friend Edward G. Robinson, who supports the cause, sells Vincent van Gogh's 1887 painting "Portrait of Père Tanguy" to raise money for their legal defense fund.The unexpected deaths of Justices Wiley Rutledge and Frank Murphy ruin Trumbo's plan to appeal to the Supreme Court.