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The Front

A satire of the Communist "witch hunts" of the 1950s.

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  • "Prete-nom"
  • "Prête-nom"

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  • "A satire of the Communist "witch hunts" of the 1950s."@en
  • "A restaurant cashier becomes a "front" for blacklisted writers during the 1950s, hoping to make some easy money. However, his experiences force him to take a stand against the injustice of the Communist witch hunt."@en
  • "Ten tijde van de jacht op communisten in de VS verdient een man bij door zijn naam te lenen aan filmschrijvers die op de zwarte lijst staan. Maar met de roem worden ook hem communistische sympathieën aangewreven."
  • "For a small commission, a bookmaker puts his name to scripts written by blacklisted writers. A satire on the communist witch hunts of the fifties, in the USA."@en
  • "Satire on the communist witch hunts of the fifties."@en
  • ""This acclaimed comedy with its serious, compelling theme vivdly brings to life one of America's most disturbing memories - the Communist 'witch hunts' of the '50's. Woody Allen stars as Howard Prince, a small-time restaurant cashier, part-time bookie and full-time loser who is induced by a writer-friend to "front" for the submission of his TV scripts when he is blacklisted as an alleged subversive. Howard is soon "fronting" for other writers. He becomes a celebrity and is lionized as television's most brilliant and prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown is blacklisted and his career is threatened, he agrees to keep Howard under surveillance. Howard is then summoned to appear before an investigative committee and his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion.""@en
  • "Feature film from the USA. Drama. In 1950s New York City, an apolitical restaurant cashier making money as a front for black-listed writers is eventually confronted by the injustice surrounding him."
  • "For a small commission, a bookmaker puts his name to scripts written by blacklisted writers."@en
  • "Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing."
  • "Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing."@en
  • "A searing indictment of the McCarthy era blacklisting and Communist witchhunts of the 1950's. Woody Allen plays a hapless ghost writer fated to become a symbolic hero. Directed by Martin Ritt (Norma Rae; Hud) who experienced blacklisting firsthand."@en
  • "A restaurant cashier is induced by a writer-friend to front for the submission of his TV scripts when he is blacklisted as an alleged subversive."
  • "Woody Allen as the dim-witted bank cashier who is catapulted to fame when banished screenwriters give him movie scripts to submit to studios under his own name."
  • "Fiction. Drame. Aux Etats-Unis, dans les années 50, le sénateur Mac Carthy enquête sur les personnalités soupçonnées de sympathies communistes. Alfred Miller, un auteur renommé inscrit sur la liste noire de la télévision américaine, demande à son ami d'enfance, Howard Prince, de lui servir de prête-nom. Le modeste plongeur accepte de se faire passer pour l'auteur de ses textes. Avec Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci."
  • "Howard Prince, a restaurant cashier, is induced by a writer-friend to front for him for the submission of his TV scripts when the friend is blacklisted as an alleged subversive."@en
  • "A searing indictment of the McCarthy era blacklisting and Communist witchhunts of the 1950's. Woody Allen plays a hapless ghost writer fated to become a symbolic hero."@en

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  • "Fiction films"
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Comedies"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
  • "Features"@en
  • "Comedie dramatique/Drame psychologique"
  • "Political films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en

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  • "The Front"@en
  • "The front"@en
  • "The front"
  • "Front (Motion picture : 1976)"@en
  • "Front (Motion picture : 1976)"
  • "The Front = Le Prete-nom"
  • "The front = e prête-nom"
  • "The front Le prête-nom"

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