The Front — 4K 05/02/26
Former blacklistees Walter Bernstein and Martin Ritt turned their career experiences into a powerful picture; the bankability of star Woody Allen is surely what got it produced. Allen plays not his usual New York schmiel but a clueless everyman who ‘fronts’ for a writer friend denied work by the blacklist. He ends up fronting for other writers, too, and then meets a blacklisted comedian (Zero Mostel) that he can’t help — a performer can’t hide behind someone else’s face and voice. The screenplay garnered an Oscar nomination for a writer who just a decade earlier was still being denied screen credit: The Wonderful Country (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Train (1964). On 4K Ultra HD + Digital from Columbia Pictures / Sony.
05/02/26