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Play Sound You want to put my name on your scripts. It's not that simple. I write the scripts I send them in under your name. They buy the scripts right It's perfect. Then they're gonna wanna meet the writer. So. So you're gonna have to go in there really be the writer. So I'll be the writer What's the big deal. I can do it and I wanna do it. I'm your friend You're in trouble. What's a friend for. Well these days you can get in trouble being friends. Life is risk.
You want to put my name on your scripts. It's not that simple. I write the scripts I send them in under your name. They buy the scripts right It's perfect. Then they're gonna wanna meet the writer. So. So you're gonna have to go in there really be the writer. So I'll be the writer What's the big deal. I can do it and I wanna do it. I'm your friend You're in trouble. What's a friend for. Well these days you can get in trouble being friends. Life is risk.

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Description: In 1953, 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.

Cast:
Howard Prince: Woody Allen
Hecky Brown: Zero Mostel
Phil Sussman: Herschel Bernardi
Alfred Miller: Michael Murphy
Florence Barrett: Andrea Marcovicci
Francis X. Hennessey: Remak Ramsay
Myer Prince: Marvin Lichterman
Herbert Delaney: Lloyd Gough
William Phelps: David Margulies
Sam - Resort Operator: Joshua Shelley
Howard's Attorney: Norman Rose
Committee Counselor: Charles Kimbrough
Committee Chairman: Josef Sommer
Danny LaGattuta: Danny Aiello
T.V. Interviewer: Georgann Johnson
Tom Hampton: Scott McKay
Hubert Jackson: David Clarke
Bank Teller: I.W. Klein
Bartender: John Eric Bentley
Margo - Tavern Waitress: Julie Garfield
Boss: Murray Moston
Harry Stone: MacIntyre Dixon
Hennessey's Tailman: Rudolph Willrich
Bookseller: Burt Britton
School Principal: Albert Ottenheimer
Steve Parks - 'Grand Central' Actor: William Bogert
Waiter: Joey Faye
Sandy - Resort Guest: Marilyn Sokol
T.V. Director: John J. Slater
Girl in Hotel Lobby: Renee Paris
Stage Hand: Gino Gennaro
Mrs. Prince - Myer's Wife: Joan Porter
Alfred's Child: Stephen Hayes
Man at Party: Matthew Tobin
Date of Man at Party: Marilyn Persky
Young Man at Party: Sam McMurray
FBI Man: Michael Miller
Nurse: Lucy Lee Flippin
Congressman: Donald Symington
Federal Marshal: Pat McNamara
Self - Mrs. America 1952: Penny Duncan
Self - Wedding to Joe McCarthy: Jean Kerr Minetti
Demonstrator: Joseph Bergmann
Bellman: Bruce Detrick
Self - 1952 Number Retirement: Joe DiMaggio
Self - 1953 Inauguration Gala: Lily Pons
Eddy Waiter: Carson Grant
Self -- McCarthy's Bride: Jean Fraser Kerr
Self - 1951 Ticker Tape Parade: Douglas MacArthur
Self: Julius Rosenberg
Self - 1953 Wedding: Joseph McCarthy
Waitress: Billie Perkins
Protester: Harrison Ressler
Train Passenger: Lauren Simon
Self - Reviewing Landing Craft: Harry S. Truman
Hotel Bellman: Frankie Verroca

Written by: Walter Bernstein

Director: Martin Ritt

Production: Rollins-Joffe Productions, Devon/Persky-Bright, Persky-Bright Productions, Columbia Pictures

Release date: 13 Jan 1977