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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Irwin Winkler (written by)
Release Date:
15 March 1991 (USA) more
Tagline:
All it took was a whisper.
Plot:
David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
"Guilty By Suspicion" Is True to Form ***1/2 more (22 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert De Niro | ... | David Merrill |
 | Annette Bening | ... | Ruth Merrill |
 | George Wendt | ... | Bunny Baxter |
| Patricia Wettig | ... | Dorothy Nolan |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | Felix Graff |
 | Luke Edwards | ... | Paulie Merrill |
 | Chris Cooper | ... | Larry Nolan |
| Ben Piazza | ... | Darryl Zanuck |
 | Martin Scorsese | ... | Joe Lesser |
| Barry Primus | ... | Bert Alan |
| Gailard Sartain | ... | Chairman Wood |
| Robin Gammell | ... | Congressman Tavenner |
| Brad Sullivan | ... | Congressman Velde |
 | Tom Sizemore | ... | Ray Karlin |
 | Roxann Dawson | ... | Felicia Barron (as Roxann Biggs) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
La liste noire (France)
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Runtime:
105 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:S | Germany:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG
Filming Locations:
20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Fun Stuff
Trivia:
Martin Scorsese portrays a fictional director called Joe Lesser. This character is clearly based on director Joseph Losey, who left Hollywood in the 1950s rather than face the HUAC examinations. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: There is a Milwaukee Braves baseball pennant on the wall of Merrill's son's room. This film takes place in 1951 and 1952. The Braves didn't move to Milwaukee from Boston until 1953. more
Quotes:
Ruth Merrill:
Uh, I'm seeing Dorothy tonight. Paulie's gonna stay at his friends. I thought I'd take her to one of those places out by Malibu.
David Merrill:
Malibu, can you afford that?
Ruth Merrill:
Can you believe you said that?
David Merrill:
No, I'd never say anything like that.
Ruth Merrill:
Wanna go?
David Merrill:
Sure, do you mind?
Ruth Merrill:
Yeah.
[she leaves]
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Zomergasten: (#9.2)" (1996) more
Soundtrack:
STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT more
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Robert DeNiro will not give names to the House UnAmerican Activities committee. There goes his Hollywood career. His marriage to Ruth, Annette Bening, has already ended in divorce, so why not the rest of his life down the drain as well?
The film is very similar in nature to Woody Allen's "The Front" of the 1970s. If you've seen the latter, you know what the ending shall be. It's called principles above all.
Patricia Wettig gives a fine supporting performance as an actress turned in by her own husband with tragedy resulting.
Nice to see Martin Scorsese go in front of the cameras for this film. He is fleeing to England to escape testifying.
We get a wonderful sense of the 1950s in Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe is hot and so is this film.