The Front

The Front is a 1976 film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. The film presented one perspective of the United States motion picture industry in the days of McCarthyism when many actors were blacklisted for their supposed "subversive" activities following an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The screenplay was written by Walter Bernstein, himself a victim of the Hollywood blacklist.

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1976 - Film - Martin Ritt - Woody Allen - Zero Mostel - United States - Motion picture - McCarthyism - House Committee on Un-American Activities - Screenplay - Walter Bernstein - Hollywood blacklist

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In the film, Woody Allen plays a small-time bookie who lends his name to the writings of his blacklisted friend, a tactic used by several of the Hollywood Ten. Possibly to protect itself, the film concerned blacklisting in the television industry rather than the movies; surprising since the credits listed half-a-dozen Hollywood artists who had suffered through the blacklist.

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Woody Allen - Hollywood Ten

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Walter Bernstein was nominated for the 1977 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and Zero Mostel was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor

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