The Front

(1976)

★ 7 IMDb · 185 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1976

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Martin Ritt

Cast: Вуди Аллен, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Майкл Мерфи, Andrea Marcovicci, Remak Ramsay, Marvin Lichterman, Lloyd Gough, David Margulies, Joshua Shelley

Plot

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.

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.