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* MisterSandmanSequence: The film opens with a montage of old newsreel clips depicting life in the early 1950s, as Music/FrankSinatra's "Young at Heart" plays on the soundtrack.
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* MisterSandmanSequence: The film opens with a montage of old newsreel clips depicting American life in the early 1950s, as Music/FrankSinatra's "Young at Heart" plays on the soundtrack.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt: Hecky claims to have only been attending Party meetings to get laid. "It was the girl with the big ass!"
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 comedy-drama film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Creator/WoodyAllen as a bookie who acts as a front for television writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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* ToxicFriend: Subverted and defied. Howard continues to insist on a friendship with Hecky even though he's been blacklisted and associating with him during the RedScare could get ''him'' accused.
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* ToxicFriend: ToxicFriendInfluence: Subverted and defied. Howard continues to insist on a friendship with Hecky even though he's been blacklisted and associating with him during the RedScare could get ''him'' accused.
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* ToxicFriend: Subverted and defied. Howard continues to insist on a friendship with Hecky even though he's been blacklisted and associating with him during the RedScare could get ''him'' accused.
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* NiceGuy: Howard. In the end, Hecky says this of him even though he's plainly jealous of Howard's meteoric rise.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: The HUAC counselor seems to assume ''everyone'' is a subversive, that when told someone is loyal, his response is along the lines of "For now, but he probably ''isn't''." His reaction to someone complaining he's accused because he shares the same name as someone who is a suspect is "well, everything will be okay because if you're innocent, you won't be accused and blacklisted", even though he's already accused and blacklisted.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hecky Brown has taken his own life, and Howard has been carted off to jail. But not without standing up the HUAC board]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hecky Brown has taken his own life, and Howard has been carted off to jail. But not without standing up to the HUAC board]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hecky Brown has taken his own life, and Howard has been carted off to jail. But not without standing up the HUAC board]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Howard's bookie career bites him when the HUAC members threaten to charge him with illegal gambling unless he can give names for communist sympathizers.
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* MathematiciansAnswer: Invoked. When put before the HUAC committee, Howard is able to dodge their questions by answering them in a way that prevents him from confirming anything. Unfortunately, the committee had another ace up their sleeve.
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* BecomingTheMask: Though he doesn't become a genuine writer, Howard comes to sympathize with their plight, [[spoiler: and refuses to give the HUAC members any names]].
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* BecomingTheMask: Though he doesn't become a genuine writer, Howard comes to sympathize with their plight, the blacklisted artists he's met, [[spoiler: and refuses to give the HUAC members any names]].
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* BecomingTheMask: Though he doesn't become a genuine writer, Howard comes to sympathize with their plight, [[spoiler: and refuses to give the HUAC members any names]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Under pressure to "name names", Howard is told he can get off easily by naming Hecky, [[spoiler:who is dead]]. No one would care, and no one thinks Howard is a sympathizer. Rather than take the easy way out, Howard tells the committee off to honor his friends, despite being arrested.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Under pressure to "name names", Howard is told he can get off easily by naming Hecky, [[spoiler:who is dead]]. No one would care, and no one thinks Howard is a sympathizer. Rather than take the easy way out, Howard tells the committee off to honor his friends, despite being arrested.leading to his imprisonment.
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** The fact that [[spoiler:Zero Mostel]] was friends with Loeb makes this even more a TearJerker.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Under pressure to "name names", Howard is told he can get off easily by naming Hecky, who [[spoiler:who is dead.dead]]. No one would care, and no one thinks Howard is a sympathizer. Rather than take the easy way out, Howard tells the committee off to honor his friends, despite being arrested.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 dramedy comedy-drama film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Creator/WoodyAllen as a bookie who acts as a front for television writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 dramedy film, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Creator/WoodyAllen and Zero Mostel, about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 dramedy film, film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Creator/WoodyAllen and Zero Mostel, about as a man bookie who acts as a front for television writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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* RealitySubtext: Most of the cast and crew actually ''were'' Blacklisted during the RedScare, including actor Zero Mostel and director Martin Ritt. The dates of their blacklisting appear under their names in the end credits.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[MurphyBrown Jim Dial]] wants Woody to name names!
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* MinsterSandmanSequence: The film opens with a montage of old newsreel clips depicting life in the early 1950s, as Music/FrankSinatra's "Young at Heart" plays on the soundtrack.
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* MinsterSandmanSequence: MisterSandmanSequence: The film opens with a montage of old newsreel clips depicting life in the early 1950s, as Music/FrankSinatra's "Young at Heart" plays on the soundtrack.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 dramedy film, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Creator/WoodyAllen and Creator/ZeroMostel, Zero Mostel, about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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* LargeHam: Hecky Brown, played by RealLife Large Ham ZeroMostel.
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* LargeHam: Hecky Brown, played by RealLife Large Ham ZeroMostel.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 film dramedy film, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Creator/WoodyAllen and Creator/ZeroMostel Creator/ZeroMostel, about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 film starring WoodyAllen and ZeroMostel about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 film starring WoodyAllen Creator/WoodyAllen and ZeroMostel Creator/ZeroMostel about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[MurphyBrown Jim Dial]] wants Woody to name names!
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* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:The final line.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:The film's final line.line, delivered by Howard to the HUAC members.]]
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'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 film starring WoodyAllen and ZeroMostel about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
!!''The Front'' provides examples of:
* BorschtBelt: Hecky has his roots there, and goes back to playing it after his blacklisting.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hecky Brown]], based on the real-life suicide of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Loeb Philip Loeb]].
* LargeHam: Hecky Brown, played by RealLife Large Ham ZeroMostel.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Alfred Miller, not to be confused with actual blacklisted playwright ArthurMiller.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:The final line.]]
* RealitySubtext: Most of the cast and crew actually ''were'' Blacklisted during the RedScare, including actor Zero Mostel and director Martin Ritt. The dates of their blacklisting appear under their names in the end credits.
* RedScare: The Second Red Scare, as it's known.
* SadClown: Hecky again.
* StageNames: Hecky Brown's real name is Herschel Bronstein.
* WitchHunt: The HUAC.
'''''The Front''''' is a 1976 film starring WoodyAllen and ZeroMostel about a man who acts as a front for writers blacklisted during the RedScare of the 1950s.
!!''The Front'' provides examples of:
* BorschtBelt: Hecky has his roots there, and goes back to playing it after his blacklisting.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hecky Brown]], based on the real-life suicide of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Loeb Philip Loeb]].
* LargeHam: Hecky Brown, played by RealLife Large Ham ZeroMostel.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Alfred Miller, not to be confused with actual blacklisted playwright ArthurMiller.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:The final line.]]
* RealitySubtext: Most of the cast and crew actually ''were'' Blacklisted during the RedScare, including actor Zero Mostel and director Martin Ritt. The dates of their blacklisting appear under their names in the end credits.
* RedScare: The Second Red Scare, as it's known.
* SadClown: Hecky again.
* StageNames: Hecky Brown's real name is Herschel Bronstein.
* WitchHunt: The HUAC.
