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Synopsis: In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence - who quits TV in disgust over things - and friendship with the show's ex-star - now himself blacklisted - make him start to think about what is really going on.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Martin Ritt
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG
Year:
1976
95 min
427 Views


Oh, my God.

Uh, Mr. Chairman,

may I have a word

with you, please?

They're willing to make a deal.

Give them names, right?

They're being very reasonable.

You don't have to give them

more than one.

Yeah, which one?

Well, it's up to you.

Look, they've got you

over a barrel.

You can go to jail.

What's one name?

If it bothers you,

give them Hecky Brown.

Hecky?

He's dead anyway.

What difference does it make?

A token is all they want.

Something to show

your cooperation, that's all.

Is the witness ready to proceed?

Yes, ready,

Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Prince, I ask you,

for the record,

did you know Hershel Brownstein?

Howard, you'll go to jail.

Also known as Hecky Brown?

Be practical.

Did you know this man

as either Brown or Brownstein?

Either name will do,

Mr. Prince.

Tell them.

Brown or Brownstein?

Just the name.

Are you refusing to answer?

Will you talk?

Fellows...

I don't recognize

the right of this committee

to ask me these kind

of questions.

And, furthermore,

you can all go f*** yourselves.

Fairy tales can come true

It can happen to you

If you're young at head

For it's hard, you will find

To be narrow of mind

If you're young at head

You can go to extremes

with impossible schemes

You can laugh when your dreams

fall apart at the seams

And life gets more exciting

with each passing day

And love is either

in your heart

Or on its way

Don't you know that it's worth

every treasure on earth

To be young at head?

For as rich as you are

it's much better by far

To be young at heart

And if you should survive

to a hundred and five

Look at all you'll derive

out of being alive

And here is the best part

You have a head start

If you are among

the very young at heart

And if you should survive

to a hundred and five

Look at all you'll derive

out of being alive

And here is the best part

You have a head start

If you are among

the very young...

At heart

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Walter Bernstein

Walter Bernstein (born August 20, 1919) is an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s. more…

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