| 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 |
| Josef Sommer | Committee Chairman |
| Danny Aiello | Danny La Gattuta |
| Georgann Johnson | TV Interviewer |
| Scott McKay | Hampton |
| John Bentley | Bartender |
| Jacob Bernstein | Alfred's Child |
| William Bogert | Parks |
| David Clarke | Hubert Jackson |
| Jack Davidson | Congressman |
| MacIntyre Dixon | Harry Stone |
| Donald Symington | Congressman |
| Joey Faye | Waiter |
| Lucy Lee Flippin | Nurse |
| Julie Garfield | Margo |
| Polly Holliday | |
| Joe Jamrog | FBI Man |
| Charles Kimbrough | Committee Counselor |
| Sam McMurray | Young Man at Party |
| J. Patrick McNamara | Federal Marshall |
| Michael Miller | FBI Man |
| Murray Moston | Boss |
| Albert M. Ottenheimer | |
| Norman Rose | Howard's Attorney |
| John Slater | TV Director |
| Marilyn Sokol | Sandy |
| Matthew Tobin | Man at Party |
| Rudolph Willrich | Tallman |
| Martin Ritt | Director, Producer |
| Charles Bailey | Art Director |
| Tom Beckert | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Walter Bernstein | Screenwriter |
| Michael Chapman | Cinematographer |
| Robert Drumheller | Set Decoration/Design |
| Walter Goss | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Robert Greenhut | Associate Producer |
| Dave Grusin | Score Composer |
| Robert Jiras | Makeup |
| Charles H. Joffe | Producer |
| Sid Levin | Editor |
| Ruth Morley | Costumes/Costume Designer |
| Jack Rollins | Executive Producer |
| James J. Sabat | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Peter R. Scoppa | Asst. Director |
| James Stewart | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Juliet Taylor | Casting |
Anonymous
Posted July 5, 2003
Yes, this is a Woody Allen movie and, yes, we have Woody as the underdog who meets the intelligent and beautiful girl. But there is far more to this movie than that. We have a set of characters who have been blacklisted by the HUAC who are writers. They have Woody's character front for them by putting his name on their scripts. What happens then is the movie exposing the tragedies of some of these characters including Zero Mostel who, in my opinion, gives us an Oscar winning performance as a blacklisted comedian who is ''removed'' from a telelvision program because of his background being discovered and then unable to find suitable work. Mostel is simply brilliant - but when wasn't he? As for Woody, he moves from a low class to someone making money and moving into a swank apartment in Manhatten. But even Woody finally sees the light of day when he is summoned to appear at a House on UnAmerican Committee hearing and tells it like it is. At the end he is no longer fronting for anyone; he becomes himself. As mentioned in the initial review, many of the cast members were victims of McCarthyism and the black list of the early 1950's. This is a must movie to either rent or buy on DVD. It will enlighten those who are not familiar with this period of American history and perhaps wake them up to what could be happening right now if we are not careful. I have put the live London performance of Bernstein's ''Candide'' which also goes to a degree into this sad period of American history. In fact, it was that ''ism'' - McCarthyism that motivated Bernstein and his friends to put together this work.
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