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QUIZ SHOW (director/producer: Robert
Redford; screenwriter: Paul Attanasio/from the book Remembering America:
A Voice From the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin; cinematographer: Michael
Ballhouse; editor: Stu Linder; music: Mark Isham; cast: John Turturro (Herbie
Stempel), Hank Azaria (Albert Freedman), Rob Morrow (Dick Goodwin), Ralph
Fiennes (Charles Van Doren), Paul Scofield (Mark Van Doren), Barry Levinson
(Dave Garroway), Mira Sorvino (Miss Sandra Goodwin), Martin Scorsese (Sponsor),
David Paymer (Dan Enright), Elizabeth Wilson (Dorothy Van Doren), Christopher
McDonald (Jack Barry); Runtime: 130; MPAA Rating: PG-13; producers: Richard
N. Goodwin/Michael Jacobs/Michael Nozik/Julian Krainin; Buena Vista Home
Entertainment; 1994)
America in the placid '50s is busy watching T.V. quiz shows. But after
this quiz show scandal, it will lose its innocence. Redford digs into the
pervasive corruption all around the government investigation of the television
industry and how all the parties involved dodged their responsibilities
to the public by covering up a lot of the dirt. It all came about when
Herbie Stempel, a Jewish working stiff from Queens, challenges the prestigious
integrity of the WASPish Charles Van Doren. A well-presented and insightful
film. GRADE: B +
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
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