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Release Date: Oct 7, 2005
Running Time: 90 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Taking place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950’s America, a chronicle of the real-life conflict between television news man Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff--headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom--defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ‘witch-hunts.’ A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on regardless and their tenacity eventually pays off when McCarthy is brought before the Senate and made powerless as his lies and bullying tactics are finally uncovered.
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Edward R Murrow
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Shirley Wershba
Don Hollenbeck
William Paley
Sig Mickelson
Fred Friendly
Jesse Zousmer
Palmer Williams
Eddie Scott
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PETER TRAVERS -
September 29, 2005
Does George Clooney have a box-office death wish? You have to wonder why the star of Ocean's Eleven would risk his standing as a pinup for ka-ching to direct, co-write and co-star in a movie set in the 1950s, shot in black-and-white and focused on a fifty-year-old battle between TV newsman Edward R. Murrow, indelibly played by David Strathairn, and the Commie-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Wonder no more. Clooney knows exactly what he's doing: blowing the dust off ancient TV history to expose…
Good Night, and Good Luck is a well-meaning reenactment of the historic moment when Edward R. Murrow took on Senator McCarthy. But it never fully comes to life as a movie in its own right. Story In the 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy began a witch hunt in Washington and Hollywood to cleanse the nation of ''commie sympathizers.'' No one dared stand up to him for fear of being targeted themselves, until journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) did an expose of the senator on his television… |
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