Network Page #3

Synopsis: In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: MGM/United Artists
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 25 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
88
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
1976
121 min
2,390 Views


about 20 minutes ago. Has he come in yet?

--of the bourgeois democratic state....

Well, let me know when he arrives, huh?

That's Laureen Hobbs, isn't it?

Yeah. This is from

a David Susskind thing a while back.

I think we can use some of this stuff.

--by the broadest possible coalition....

What we're going to see now

is something really sensational.

The Flagstaff Independent Bank of Arizona

was ripped off last week...

...by a terrorist group called

the Ecumenical Liberation Army.

They actually took movies of the rip-off

while they were ripping it off.

-Wait till you see it.

-The Ecumenical Liberation Army.

That's not the one

that kidnapped Patty Hearst?

No, no.

That's the Symbionese Liberation Army.

This is the Ecumenical Liberation Army.

They're the ones who kidnapped

Mary Ann Gifford three weeks ago.

There's a lot of liberation armies

in the revolutionary underground...

...and a lot of kidnapped heiresses.

This is Mary Ann Gifford.

That's the Great Ahmed Kahn,

he's their leader.

You mean, they actually shot this film...

...while they were ripping off the bank?

Wait till you see it. I don't know

whether to edit or leave it raw like this.

This is terrific stuff.

Where did you get it?

I got everything through Laureen Hobbs.

She's my contact for all this stuff.

-Yeah?

I've got Howard on the other line.

All right, put him on.

Howard, I've got Max on 4.

Would you pick up?

-Listen, Max, I'd like another shot.

-Oh, come on, Howard.

I don't mean the whole show....

I'd just like to come on,

make some brief farewell statement...

...and then turn the show over

to Jack Snowden.

I have 11 years at this network, Max.

I have some standing in the industry.

I just don't wanna go out like a clown.

It'll be simple, dignified.

You and Harry can check the copy.

I think it'll take the strain

off the show, Max.

Well, what do you think?

Well, okay.

And no booze today, Howard.

No booze.

Summaries have been received.

We're forwarding them....

George, can, uh, you come into my office

for a minute?

Right.

-Barbara, is Tommy around anywhere?

-I think so.

I'd like to see the two of you

for a moment.

Uh, this is Bill Herron from our

West Coast Special Programs Department.

George Bosch, Barbara Schlesinger,

Tommy Pellegrino.

Look, I just saw some rough footage

of a special Bill's doing...

...on the revolutionary underground.

Most is tedious stuff...

...of Laureen Hobbs and two fatigue jackets

muttering mutilated Marxism.

But he's got about eight minutes

of a bank robbery...

...that is absolutely sensational.

Authentic stuff.

Actually shot

while the robbery was going on.

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Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. more…

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