When Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is given two weeks notice for dismissal from being a TV news anchorman because of low ratings. During his last two weeks he begins to lose his mind. His rantings on live television about modern greed and corporate corruption capture the interest of audiences. But he gets his greatest ratings ever when he threatens to commit suicide on air. When TV excecutive Max Schumacher (William Holden) at the parent company Communications Corporation of America (CCA) notices what great ratings Howard's honest talk is getting, he gives Howard his own live show to broadcast the counter-culture ideas pervasive in America. Producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) pushes Howard harder and harder to go more extreme for better ratings. But the hit show they have created begins to turn against its creator when Howard targets CCA is the symbol of everything that is wrong in America.
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Faye Dunaway | Diana Christensen |
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William Holden | Max Schumacher |
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Peter Finch | Howard Beale |
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Robert Duvall | Frank Hackett |
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Wesley Addy | Nelson Chaney |
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Ned Beatty | Arthur Jensen |
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Arthur Burghardt | Great Ahmed Kahn |
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Bill Burrows | TV Director |
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John Carpenter | George Bosch |
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Jordan Charney | Harry Hunter |
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Kathy Cronkite | Mary Ann Gifford |
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Ed Crowley | Joe Donnelly |
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Jerome Dempsey | Walter C. Amundsen |
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Conchata Ferrell | Barbara Schlesinger |
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Gene Gross | Milton K. Steinman |
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Stanley Grover | Jack Snowden |
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Cindy Grover | Caroline Schumacher |
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Darryl Hickman | Bill Herron |
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Mitchell Jason | Arthur Zangwill |
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Paul Jenkins | TV Stage Manager |
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Ken Kercheval | Merrill Grant |
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Kenneth Kimmins | Associate Producer |
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Lynn Klugman | TV Production Assistant |
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Carolyn Krigbaum | Max's Secretary |
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Zane Lasky | Audio Man |
| Director | Sidney Lumet |
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| Writer | Paddy Chayefsky | |
| Producer | Fred C. Caruso, Howard Gottfried | |
| Musician | Elliot Lawrence | |
| Photography | Owen Roizman | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) Widescreen (16:9) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Mono [English] |
| Subtitles | English | English (Closed Captioned) | French | Spanish |
| Layers | Dual side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 24, 1998 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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| Index | 708 |
| Added Date | Dec 07, 2010 21:35:07 |
| Modified Date | Jun 27, 2018 07:10:22 |