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The Front is a 1976 comedy-drama directed by Martin Ritt and starring Woody Allen.

Plot[]

Blacklisted TV writer Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy) hires New York cashier Howard Prince (Allen) to "front" for him, selling scripts to the station under Prince's name.

Cast[]

  • Woody Allen as Howard Prince
  • Zero Mostel as Hecky Brown
  • Herschel Bernardi as Phil Sussman
  • Michael Murphy as Alfred Miller
  • Andrea Marcovicci as Florence Barrett
  • Remak Ramsay as Francis X. Hennessey
  • Marvin Lichterman as Myer Prince
  • Lloyd Gough as Herbert Delaney
  • David Margulies as William Phelps