The front [videorecording]
2017
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Martin Ritt directs this 1970s US drama starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Andrea Marcovicci. Set during the early 1950s at the time of Joseph McCarthy's communist witch-hunt, Howard Prince (Allen) is a restaurant cashier who is asked to 'front' for several blacklisted television writers by submitting their scripts under his name. At first, being politically uninterested, Howard does this in order to pay off his gambling debts. But as he becomes more personally involved with the writers and their work he starts questioning the system that is driving these writers underground.
Main title:
The front [videorecording] / producer, Martin Ritt.
Author:
Ritt, Martin, 1914-1990, directorGrusin, Dave, composer (expression)Allen, Woody, 1935-, actorMostel, Zero, actorMurphy, Michael, 1938-, actor
Imprint:
[United Kingdom] : Powerhouse Films, 2017.
Collation:
2 DVDs (91 min.) : colour
Notes:
Extras to be confirmed, Region 2, 2 disc(s), Interactive menus, Languages (English), Subtitles for hard of hearing (English).Made in 1976.DVDBL.
Credits:
Credits: director, Martin Ritt; writer, Walter Bernstein; music, Dave Grusin; cinematographer, Michael Chapman.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy, Herschel Bernardi, Remak Ramsay, Danny Aiello, Lloyd Gough, Marvin Lichterman, Andrea Marcovicci, David Margulies, Joshua Shelley.
Audience:
BBFC code: 12.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
257750
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