Network
Howard Beale, the dean of newscasters at the United Television Network, is put out to pasture because he too old. Network executive Max Schumacher, Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad news.
Beale can't stomach the idea of losing his 25-year post as anchorman simply because of age, so in his next broadcast he announces to the viewers that he's going to commit suicide on his final program. What he doesn't count on is a media blitz surrounding his circumstance.
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Cast
Faye Dunaway - Diana Christensen
Lee Richardson - Narrator Narrator
William Holden - Max Schumacher
Peter Finch - Howard Beale
Robert Duvall - Frank Hackett
Wesley Addy - Nelson Chaney
Ned Beatty - Arthur Jensen
Arthur Burghardt - Great Ahmed Kahn
Bill Burrows - TV Director
Production Co.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
United Artists
Produced by
Howard Gottfried
Fred Caruso
Paddy Chayefsky
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Writer
Paddy Chayefsky
Music
Elliot Lawrence
