The Front

Genre: comedy, drama

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Columbia Picture Corp

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy

Copyright: Registered 30Sep76 · LP46595 (Jul-Dec 1976) Copyright holder: Devon Company

Description: Presents a satire on the communist with hunts of the fifties in Hollywood. Directed by Martin Ritt. Stars Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi. In 1953, television screenwriter Alfred Miller is blacklisted and cannot get work. He asks his friend Howard Prince, a restaurant cashier and small-time bookie, to sign his name to Miller's television scripts. Howard becomes such a success that Miller's two fellow screenwriter friends hire him to be their front too. Hecky Brown is fired from the show, because he marched in a May Day parade and subscribed to The Daily Worker. The professional humiliation and the inability to provide for his wife and children take their toll, and, as a result, Hecky kills himself.

Complete Record: Presents a satire on the communist with hunts of the fifties in Hollywood. Directed by Martin Ritt. Stars Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi.

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