
Trumbo(2015)
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.



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
The Front is a comedy, drama film released in 1976 exploring themes of friendship, fight, politics, movie business, screenwriter, mccarthy era. Directed by Martin Ritt, it stars Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi. 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.
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