Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's novel Remembering America, the film tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. The film chronicles the rise and fall of the popular contestant Charles Van Doren after the rigged loss of Herb Stempel and the Congressional investigator Richard Goodwin's probe of Twenty One's game-fixing. Goodwin co-produced the film.
Glumačka postava:
John Turturro
Rob Morrow
Ralph Fiennes
Paul Scofield
Christopher McDonald
Plot:
An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOSnYt9k4kM
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