# Walter Bernstein

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...about The Front (1976) with Aaron Leonard

A film from 1976 about the anti-Communist blacklist. Written, directed and acted by formerly blacklisted artists, and starring Woody Allen. Featuring guest co-host Aaron Leonard author of “The Folksingers & The Bureau”. Directed by by Martin Ritt (blacklisted 1951), written by Walter Bernstein (bl…

Walter Bernstein

Walter Bernstein was born in Brooklyn in 1919. For the next 94 years he wrote and co-wrote terrific movies for big stars: Fail Safe with Henry Fonda, The Train with Burt Lancaster, The Magnificent Seven with everybody – Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson. The Fro…

210: SFFCH – Fail Safe [1964]

We hope you’re all in the mood to be well bummed out this week here at Spoiler Filled, because Jamie has found the perfect film for it in Sidney Lumet’s Cold War political thriller Fail Safe. Whilst most of the film may be just one-sided phone calls, opening of envelopes and men staring at blinki…

1957: The Brave One(s)

This episode will examine the history of blacklisting in Hollywood, looking at the treatment of writers including Dalton Trumbo (“Roman Holiday,” “The Brave One”) and Walter Bernstein (“The Front”). Guests: Mitzi Trumbo, daughter of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo; Howard Rodman, screenwriter, former p…

EP. 19: THE FRONT W/ ANDREA MARCOVICCI

Written and directed by former blacklistees of the McCarthy Era (Walter Bernstein and Martin Ritt), the 1976 gem The Front confronts Hollywood's dark history of censorship and blacklisting during the height of the Red Scare--and Max, Gary, and Dan are here to discuss the lore of it all alongside An…

"Storm Center" (with Christian Niedan)

On the 12th episode of Framed & Bound, host Tobias Carroll and Christian Niedan of Screen Sounds discuss the 1956 film Storm Center, about book banning in a small town. There's also a fascinating trailer for the film that can be found on YouTube — which literally shows the final scene of the movie.…

E43: The Molly Maguires

The Molly Maguires was a secret society that originated in 19th-century Ireland and later emerged in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. Their goal was to defend the working class. Although twenty men were hanged, the true extent of the Molly Maguires’ existence and involvement in Pennsylvania remains …

"The Front" (With Melanie Anagnos)

This time out, we're discussing The Front, written by Walter Bernstein and directed by Martin Ritt, about an unambitious man asked to work as a "front" for several blacklisted writers in the 1950s. The film stars Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy, Herschel Bernardi, and Andrea Marcovicci. O…

The Magnificent Seven - 1960

We're back in the old west to see if a crew of nomadic gunslingers can defend a small village of farmers from a band of ruthless bandits. (NR), 1960 Directed by John Sturges Written by William Roberts, Walter Bernstein, and Shinobu Hashimoto Starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Jam…

"Fail Safe": Films of 1964

This week, the boys get bleak and drink to the nuclear apocalypse- we’re talking about “Fail Safe”! Sidney Lumet’s 1964 Cold War “what-if” came out the same year as, but a few months after, “Dr. Strangelove…” (previous episode), but ohhhhh man does this movie feel prescient. I mean, no crazy people…