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The Front

Name: The Front
Director: Martin Ritt
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1976
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci

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.

1976 · Directed by Martin Ritt · 95 min · Comedy · Drama · 9 frames

Tagline

America's most unlikely hero.

Crew

Written by: Walter Bernstein
Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Edited by: Sidney Levin
Music: Dave Grusin
Produced by: Martin Ritt

Cast

Woody Allen as Howard Prince
Zero Mostel as Hecky Brown
Herschel Bernardi as Philip Sussman
Michael Murphy as Alfred Miller
Andrea Marcovicci as Florence Barrett
Remak Ramsay as Hennessey
Marvin Lichterman as Myer Prince
Lloyd Gough as Delaney
David Margulies as Phelps
Joshua Shelley as Sam

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Devon/Persky-Bright, Persky-Bright Productions, Columbia Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
Themes: friendship, fight, politics, movie business, screenwriter, mccarthy era, front, writer, communism, mccarthyism

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