The Front
– A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ..
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
01 Jan 1977
English
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Martin Ritt
Walter Bernstein
Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy
In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence - who quits TV in disgust over things - and friendship with the show's ex-star - now himself blacklisted - make him start to think about what is really going on.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
Sony Pictures Entertainment