The Front

This acclaimed comedy with its serious, compelling theme vividly brings to life one of the America’s most disturbing memories: the Communist ‘witch hunts’ of the ‘50s. Woody Allen stars as Howard Prince, a small-time restaurant cashier, part time bookie and full-time loser who is induced by a writer friend to front for the submission of his of his TV scripts when he is blacklisted for an alleged subversive. Howard is soon ‘fronting’ for other writers. He becomes a celebrity and is lionized as television’s most brilliant and prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel) is blacklisted and his career is threatened, he agrees to keep Howard under surveillance. Howard is then summoned to appear before an investigation committee and his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion.