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Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film directed and produced by Robert Redford. Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio [5] adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin , a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. [6]
The 1950s have been packaged as a time of Eisenhower and Elvis, Chevy Bel-Airs and blue jeans, crew cuts and drive-ins. "Quiz Show" remembers it was also a decade when intellectuals were respected, when a man could be famous because he was a poet and a teacher, when TV audiences actually watched shows on which experts answered questions about Shakespeare and Dickens, science and history.
Quiz Show would have been a very different experience without him. Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Dave Kehr New York Daily News For all of its occasional naiveté, this is a movie that practices what ...
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A big-money, high-stakes TV game show becomes the subject of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption behind-the-scenes implicating both the current and former champs. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Richard Goodwin (Rob Morrow), a young Congressional lawyer, learns that the grand jury findings have been sealed and travels to New York City to investigate rumors of rigged quiz shows. Visiting a number of contestants, including Stempel and Van Doren, he begins to suspect that Twenty-One is a fixed operation.
Jan 6, 1992 · When CBS premiered "The $64,000 Question" in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phenomenon. More quiz shows followed. What the audience was to learn, much later, was that many ...
Show all movies in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 9:21:40 PM, 05/22/2024 . Quiz Show is 2493 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 810 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Leave Me Alone but less popular than Wonder Woman.
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