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In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence - who quits TV in disgust over things - and friendship with the shows ex-star - now himself blacklisted - make him start to think about what is really going on.
In the 50s, in New York City, the screenplay writer Alfred Miller meets his apolitical friend, the cashier of restaurant and smalltime bookmaker Howard Prince and tells him that he can not work anymore since he is blacklisted. Prince offers to sell his scripts to the producer of a TV station using his own name and Alfred offers a 10% commission to Prince. Prince uses the money to pay his debts and improve his life and soon he offers his name to two other blacklisted writers. Meanwhile he dates the TV screenplay editor Florence Barrett. When the veteran actor Hecky Brown is blacklisted and fired by the producer Phil Sussman, the idealistic Florence quits her job. But when Hecky Brown commits suicide, Prince takes a stand against the unjust system.
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Howard Prince
Zero Mostel
Hecky Brown
Herschel Bernardi
Phil Sussman
Michael Murphy
Alfred Miller
Andrea Marcovicci
Florence Barrett
Remak Ramsay
Francis X. Hennessey
Marvin Lichterman
Myer Prince
Lloyd Gough
Herbert Delaney
David Margulies
William Phelps
Joshua Shelley
Sam - Resort Operator
Norman Rose
Howard's Attorney
Charles Kimbrough
Committee Counselor
Josef Sommer
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Danny LaGattuta
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Hubert Jackson
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