movie poster for THE FRONT

Flicks ID

1432

Cert

15

Running time

95 mins

Country

Language

Format

VHS

THE FRONT (1976)

MARTIN RITT

Plot

A story from the McCarthy anti-communist purge era. Woody Allen plays an unambitious restaurant cashier whose writer friends, all black-listed because of their supposed leftist tendencies, ask him to "front" their film scripts. In the end this feckless character faces the black-list himself.