Directed by:
Martin RittScreenplay:
Walter BernsteinCinematography:
Michael ChapmanComposer:
Dave GrusinCast:
Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Josef Sommer, Danny Aiello, Sam McMurray, Charles Kimbrough, Lloyd Gough (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
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 more or less politically 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 happening... (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Woody Allen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267669_cf80a5.jpg)
Woody Allen
USA
Best movies:
Love and Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
![Zero Mostel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271507_a2ac26.jpg)
Zero Mostel
USA
Best movies:
Watership Down (1978)
The Front (1976)
The Enforcer (1951)
![Herschel Bernardi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/011/160011772_bdec89.jpg)
Herschel Bernardi
USA
Best movies:
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
The Savage Eye (1960)
Irma la Douce (1963)
![Michael Murphy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274882_0691b6.jpg)
Michael Murphy
USA
Best movies:
Magnolia (1999)
Manhattan (1979)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
![Andrea Marcovicci](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/525/161525897_a9e508.jpg)
Andrea Marcovicci
USA
Best movies:
The Front (1976)
The Canterville Ghost (1986) (TV movie)
Someone to Love (1987)
![Josef Sommer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/130/164130324_6c0f4e.jpg)
Josef Sommer
German Empire
Best movies:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Sophie's Choice (1982) - narrator
![Danny Aiello](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267925_681c01.jpg)
Danny Aiello
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
![Sam McMurray](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/253/163253535_b5b48a.png)
Sam McMurray
USA
Best movies:
The Simpsons: Gone Wild (2004) (video compilation)
Klaus (2019)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
![Charles Kimbrough](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/747/160747101_a4a785.jpg)
Charles Kimbrough
USA
Best movies:
The Front (1976)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Ally McBeal (1997) (series)
![Lloyd Gough](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162677_8e5250.jpg)
Lloyd Gough
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Storm Warning (1951)
Funny Girl (1968)
![Georgann Johnson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256213_ad2933.gif)
Georgann Johnson
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Shoot the Moon (1982)
The Day After (1983) (TV movie)
David Clarke
USA
Best movies:
Adam's Rib (1949)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
![William Bogert](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/344/160344795_876277.jpg)
William Bogert
USA
Best movies:
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Columbo (1971) (series)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Marilyn Sokol
USA
Best movies:
Man on the Moon (1999)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
The Front (1976)
![David Margulies](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/412/160412451_570721.gif)
David Margulies
USA
Best movies:
Ghostbusters (1984)
Running on Empty (1988)
All That Jazz (1979)
Lucy Lee Flippin
USA
Best movies:
Annie Hall (1977)
A Perfect World (1993)
The Front (1976)
Joshua Shelley
USA
Best movies:
All the President's Men (1976)
The Front Page (1974)
The Front (1976)
Michael Miller
USA
Best movies:
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Chaplin (1992)
The Front (1976)
![Donald Symington](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/546/162546405_41d236.jpg)
Donald Symington
USA
Best movies:
Annie Hall (1977)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
The Front (1976)
![Pat McNamara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/739/162739561_065f64.jpg)
Pat McNamara
USA
Best movies:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Fight Club (1999)
Sleepers (1996)