Network

(1977)

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| Film | USA | Colour | Drama | 2h 1min |
AA
| Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch | Director: Sidney Lumet

A network news commentator begins to say what he thinks about the world and becomes a new messiah to the people and an embarrassment to his sponsors

Cast

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Faye Dunaway
Diana Christensen
William Holden
Max Schumacher
Photograph of English-born Australian actor, Peter Finch (1)
Howard Beale
Robert Duvall
Frank Hackett
Wesley Addy
Nelson Chaney
Ned Beatty
Arthur Jensen
Arthur Burghardt
Great Ahmed Kahn
Bill Burrows
TV Director
John Carpenter
George Bosch
Jordan Charney
Harry Hunter
Kathy Cronkite
Mary Ann Gifford
Ed Crowley
Joe Donnelly
Jerome Dempsey
Walter C Amundsen
Conchata Ferrell
Barbara Schlesinger
Gene Gross
Milton K Steinman
Stanley Grover
Jack Snowden
Cindy Grover
Caroline Schumacher
Darryl Hickman
Bill Herron
Mitchell Jason
Arthur Zangwill
Paul Jenkins
TV Stage Manager
Ken Kercheval
Merrill Grant
Kenneth Kimmins
Associate Producer
Lynn Klugman
TV Production Assistant
Carolyn Krigbaum
Max’s Secretary
Zane Lasky
Audio Man
Michael Lipton
Tommy Pellegrino
Michael Lombard
Willie Stein
Pirie MacDonald
Herb Thackeray
Russ Petranto
TV Associate Director
Bernard Pollock
Lou
Roy Poole
Sam Haywood
William Prince
Edward George Ruddy
Sasha von Scherler
Helen Miggs
Lane Smith
Robert McDonough
Ted Sorel
Giannini
Beatrice Straight
Louise Schumacher
Fred Stuthman
Mosaic Figure
Cameron Thomas
TV Technical Director
Marlene Warfield
Laureen Hobbs
Lydia Wilen
Hunter’s Secretary
Lee Richardson
Narrator
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Reviews

(1)

A deliberately melodramatic satire on media corruption, it is passionate and compulsively watchable in its depiction of the dangerous madness exploited by mass media. What once seemed overheated satire has come, with time, to resemble accurate reporting. Its very existence in a commercial system is as remarkable as its box-office success. (Halliwell’s)

Production

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Sidney Lumet
Director
Howard Gottfried
Producer (producer)
Paddy Chayefsky
Writer

Companies

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Production company
United Artists
Distribution company