The darkest side of Hollywoodhistory was indeed the McCarthy-area at where everyone was banned from the moment he had sympathy for the Communists in Russia. It might have been a cold war without real attacks but paranoia never was so big as before and it's good to see some filmmakers who were back then the victim of the McCarthy-law (Martin Ritt, Zero Mostel and many others) joining hands to make The Front. You see how typical it is once politics are brainwashed by one movement as all others are accused, plus it is amazing to see how many careers were destroyed by doing virtually nothing...even reading a book by Dostojevski was something you better didn't do. The movie itself is an okay film that could have been better and for once you can't blame Woody Allen for it. It's perhaps one of the few movies in where you can see Allen as a normal actor...and for once there is a scene included in where there is no talk about some psychiatrist!
Review of The Front
