Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- friendship
- fight
- politics
- movie business
- screenwriter
- mccarthy era
- front
- writer
- communism
- mccarthyism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Woody Allen
Howard Prince
Zero Mostel
Hecky Brown
Herschel Bernardi
Philip 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
- Norman Rose — Howard's Attorney
- Charles Kimbrough — Committee Counselor
- Josef Sommer — Committee Chairman
- Danny Aiello — Danny LaGattuta
- Georgann Johnson — T.V. Interviewer
- Directed
- Martin Ritt
- Written
- Walter Bernstein
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 185 ratings
- Studio
- Devon/Persky-Bright, Persky-Bright Productions, Columbia Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
