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Director: Sidney Lumet (Dir)
Release Date:   1976
Premiere Information:   Los Angeles and New York openings: 14 Nov 1976
Duration (in mins):   121
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Cast:   Faye Dunaway (Diana Christensen)  
    William Holden (Max Schumacher)  
    Peter Finch (Howard Beale)  
    Robert Duvall (Frank Hackett)  
Summary:  
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.  
Distribution Company: United Artists Corp. (Transamerica Corp.)
Director: Sidney Lumet (Dir)
Producer: Howard Gottfried (Prod)
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky ([Wrt] by)
Photography: Owen Roizman (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg (Prod des)
Film Editor: Alan Heim (Ed)
Music: Elliot Lawrence (Orig mus comp and cond)
MPAA Rating: R
Country: United States
Language: English
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Source Text:
Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. & United Artists Corp. 14/11/1976 dd/mm/yyyy LP46818
PCA NO: 24546
Physical Properties: Sd:
  col: Metrocolor
  Widescreen/ratio: Panavision
 
Genre: Comedy-drama
Note: Network was ranked 64th on AFI's 2007 100 Years…100 Movies--10th Anniversary Edition list of the greatest American films moving up from the 66th position it held on AFI's 1997 list. 
Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
Hollywood Reporter   12 Oct 1976   p. 1, 3.
Los Angeles Times   14 Nov 1976   Calendar, p. 1.
New Republic   3 Nov 1976   pp. 22-23.
New York Times   15 Nov 1976   p. 39.
New Yorker   6 Dec 1976   pp. 177-80.
Newsweek   22 Nov 1976   p. 107.
Rolling Stone   16 Dec 1976   p. 41.
Saturday Review   13 Nov 1976   p. 44.
Time   29 Nov 1976   p. 79.
Variety   13 Oct 1976   p. 22.
Village Voice   29 Nov 1976   p. 53.
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