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  1. Sep 16, 1994 · The early quiz shows rewarded knowledge, and made celebrities out of people who knew a lot of things and could remember them. The post-fix quiz shows rewarded luck. On “The $64,000 Question” and “Twenty-One” you could see people getting rich because they were smart.

  2. Sep 16, 1994 · Movie Review : ‘Quiz Show’s’ Category: Evil and Moral Ambiguity. By KENNETH TURAN. Sept. 16, 1994 12 AM PT. TIMES FILM CRITIC. As the subject for a major motion picture, the fuss surrounding the...

  3. Richard Goodwin, 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.

  4. May 11, 2021 · Robert Redford’s fascinating and meticulously crafted Quiz Show (1994) is one such determined showcase of TV’s moral corruption and duplicity that also doubles up as a insightful commentary on 50s America.

  5. Quiz Show: Directed by Robert Redford. With John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield. A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Robert Redford
    • 1994-10-07
  6. Sep 14, 1994 · The brilliantly unsettling prologue to "Quiz Show" is a seduction scene in an automobile showroom, with a shiny new Chrysler working its wiles upon a wary young man.

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  8. Robert Redford’s Quiz Show is an engrossing chronicle of the investigation that blew the lid on Twenty-One's fixing, revealed when disgruntled champion Herb Stempel became a whistleblower.

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