The Front

Release Date:
Sep 17, 1976
MPAA Rating:
PG
Running Time:
1:33
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Director:
Martin Ritt
Cast:
Woody Allen Howard Prince
Zero Mostel Hecky Brown
Herschel Bernardi Phil Sussman
Michael Murphy Alfred Miller
Andrea Marcovicci Florence Barrett
Remak Ramsay Hennessey
Marvin Lichterman Myer Prince
Lloyd Gough Delaney
David Margulies Phelps
Joshua Shelley Sam
Danny Aiello Danny LaGattuta
Scott McKay Hampton
Julie Garfield Margo
Charles Kimbrough Committee Counselor
Josef Sommer Committee Chairman
Producers:
Charles H. Joffe , Martin Ritt , Jack Rollins
Writers:
Walter Bernstein
Language:
English

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In the 1950s, restaurant cashier Howard Prince is apathetic toward the politics around him. When a blacklisted screenwriter asks Howard to sell a script under his own name, Howard sees an opportunity to make a profit and becomes a ''front'' for several blacklisted writers. But after he witnesses the social destruction of a comedian, Howard sees the corruption of McCarthyism and decides to do something to make a difference.

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