螢光幕後
Network
Release: 1976-11-19
·Runtime: 122m
·★ 7.8
剧情
薛尼盧梅執導,費唐娜薇、威廉荷頓、彼德芬治、勞勃杜瓦領銜主演。電視台為了拯救收視率不擇手段,除了將新聞節目綜藝化,更續聘精神異常的主播。本片諷刺電視台無所不用其極鞏固收視率,即便影片已歷時30幾年,仍舊十分符合時下媒體現況。榮獲1976年奧斯卡金像獎最佳男女主角、最佳女配角、最佳原著劇本四項大獎。 1975年,紐約UBS電視台的王牌新聞主播霍華比爾(彼德芬治飾),受到妻子過世的打擊成天酗酒,使得收視率慘跌,電視台主管卻任由霍華在主持的新聞節目上大發憤世嫉俗言論,沒想到收視率大增,原本被革職的比爾因而繼續留任。然而,因為政治力量的介入,在一次的新聞節目中,比爾竟然險被刺殺…
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
United Artists
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Peter Finch
as Howard Beale
Jordan Charney
as Harry Hunter
Ted Sorel
as Giannini
Lance Henriksen
as Network Lawyer at Khan's Place (uncredited)
Beatrice Straight
as Louise Schumacher
Paul Jenkins
as TV Stage Manager
Roy Poole
as Sam Haywood
Faye Dunaway
as Diana Christensen
康查塔·費雷爾
as Barbara Schlesinger
Stanley Grover
as Jack Snowden
Darryl Hickman
as Bill Herron
Ken Kercheval
as Merrill Grant
尼德·巴帝
as Arthur Jensen
Arthur Burghardt
as Great Ahmed Kahn
Pirie MacDonald
as Herb Thackeray
William Prince
as Edward George Ruddy
Sasha von Scherler
as Helen Miggs
Lane Smith
as Robert McDonough
Fred Stuthman
as Mosaic Figure
Michael Lombard
as Willie Stein
Wesley Addy
as Nelson Chaney
Kathy Cronkite
as Mary Ann Gifford
Gene Gross
as Milton K. Steinman
Kenneth Kimmins
as Associate Producer
Ed Crowley
as Joe Donnelly
Cindy Grover
as Caroline Schumacher
William Holden
as Max Schumacher
Robert Duvall
as Frank Hackett
Marlene Warfield
as Laureen Hobbs
Lee Richardson
as Narrator (voice)
Bill Burrows
as TV Director