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An exceptional expose on the absurdity of the Hollywood Blacklist. Allen is a restaurant cashier asked by a former high school chum to “front” as a writer so this gentleman can continue to write and get paid. It works so well, two more blacklist writers are added. It’s funny to watch unassuming Allen develop an ego as he takes on the persona of an actual writer. In addition, there is a love interest which questions whether this love would grow if he were still a cashier.
The second half of this movie really builds around the conflicts involved with whether to testify and “name names”. The absurdity is so evident when Allen is forced to testify to escape punishment if he will “out” a purported communist who has just committed suicide. Zero Mostel also has a great role as an actor trying to get work.
I strongly recommend this movie to challenge your beliefs about the blacklist. Also, make sure and stay for the credits to see the many involved who were blacklisted but were able to work on this movie. An exceptionally entertaining and educational movie.
Soon after the release of his hilarious 1975 film, “Love and Death,” Woody Allen did something he rarely does…
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…he starred in a movie — that he didn’t write or direct.
Back in the mid-1970s, the idea of slapstick actor Woody Allen — crossing into “serious” territory and coming out heroic — was unfathomable.
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Yet when “The Front” came out in 1976, its ad campaign blared, “America’s Most Unlikely Hero.” I couldn’t shake off Allen’s image as a prankster, the same foolish nerd who’s vividly on display in his early, fall-down-funny films.
But when I saw Allen in “The Front,” directed by the late Martin Ritt, it marked the beginning of my “conversion” — from an on-the-fence “observer” — into a full-fledged, Woody Allen fan.
“The Front” feels like it’s all Woody Allen — because it has a comedic flair with which we’re familiar in all of his films. But former blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein — not Woody Allen — wrote the script for “The Front.”
The film is about a serious part of American history. Allen is a cashier and a part-time bookie — who shoots to super stardom as a “front” for blacklisted television writers who are Communist sympathizers. His built-in persona as a clumsy and intellectual nerd — vested into a heartfelt character who feels tremendous loyalty and affection for his friends — is a wonderment. And in 1976, for the first time — we got to see humanity and horror reflected in a starkly emotional face — that Allen himself rarely reveals — when he’s an actor in his own films.
When this “PG-rated” picture came out more than 30 years ago, I was shocked by its ending. In 1976, you couldn’t end a film like “The Front” without getting slapped with an “R” rating. During the 1970s, only one other American film containing a specific profane expression — “All the President’s Men” — also released in 1976 — escaped with a “PG” rating, with the Motion Picture Association of America citing “historical” considerations. That same reasoning must have also applied to “The Front.”
Today, the ending of “The Front” seems tame, but it was a revelation during the 1970s. Years later, I look back at “The Front,” a film missed by many, as a “turning point” for Woody’s career — a launching pad for the sparkling and serious work Allen himself churned out as a writer and director from 1977 to 1989 — a stellar period, creatively speaking, that in my view, he’s unlikely to top again. And I can’t help but think that “The Front,” which was released before “Annie Hall” in 1977, played some role in Allen’s decision to shift gears forever, writing more films with important themes, yet still stamped with his special brand of humor.
The late Zero Mostel and the luminous Andrea Marcovicci are also fabulous. Mostel was a well-known performer in 1976, hence his polish as an actor shines through. The bigger surprise is Marcovicci. One wonders what kind of film career she could’ve had — had she been offered better parts. She’s camera-ready radiant and her acting is note perfect in “The Front.” (Fortunately, in real life, she got the last laugh, going on to a spectacular career as a cabaret singer in New York.)
I just watched “The Front” again and it still holds up well. Superficially it feels comic, but the undercurrent of tragedy is present. After a horrific plot twist takes center stage, Woody’s transformation is complete. His status as a “front” for blacklisted writers becomes more than just about having money and friends. Just before his character has to testify in front of a Congressional committee about Communists in the entertainment industry, he vows to Andrea Marcovicci that he’ll NEVER go back to his old life as a cashier. But he doesn’t tell her how. In fact, we as an audience — don’t know how Allen’s character will achieve this goal — until he utters the last line in the picture.
Untypically (for Woody Allen) — that line — is a crowd pleaser. But everything feels earned. (Frank Sinatra sings “Young at Heart” under the opening AND closing credits.) In sum, “The Front” is a hidden gem more people should see.
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