WUSA (1970)
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46% want to see it
(56 ratings)
Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a… More Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a local radio station, WUSA, but the station is a right-wing propaganda mill that devotes its air time to venomous tirades against political and social progress. Rheinhardt is happy to be making decent money, and he makes the friendly acquaintance of a local working girl, Geraldine (Joanne Woodward), so he refuses to look his gift horse in the mouth. However, when he finds out that WUSA is actually involved in shadowy political actions, he is at a loss for what to do, especially after a naïve and troubled social worker (Anthony Perkins) is tricked into starting a race riot. Robert Stone wrote the screenplay, adapted from his novel A Hall of Mirrors. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
PG-13,
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
It's too bad that the execution of this Paul Newman starring film is so poor for it raises some interesting social and political issues
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Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...serves as a nostalgia-inducing oddity, a kind of scrapbook of American sensibility at the end of the 1960s, a time when there really were people ... who believed we were on the brink of revolution
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Sean Axmaker, Parallax View
... the film hammers home its politics with blunt force yet leaves the conspiracy drama vague, more symbolic gesture of outrage than convincing plot.
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John Lingan, Slant Magazine
WUSA predicts the right's coming media dominance while greatly overestimating the conservative movement's slyness, subtlety, and respect for their own audience.
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Cast
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Paul Newman
as Rheinhardt
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Joanne Woodward
as Geraldine
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Anthony Perkins
as Rainey
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Laurence Harvey
as Farley
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Pat Hingle
as Bingamon
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Don Gordon
as Bogdanovich
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Michael Anderson Jr.
as Marvin
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Leigh French
as Girl
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Cloris Leachman
as Philomene
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Moses Gunn
as Clotho
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Wayne Rogers
as Minter
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Robert Quarry
as Noonan
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Skip Young
as Jimmy Snipe
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Tol Avery
as Senator
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Hal Baylor
as Shorty
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Lucille Benson
as Matron
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Jim Boles
as Hot Dog Vendor
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Bruce Cabot
as King Wolyoe
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Zara Cully
as White-Haired Woman
- Louis Gossett Jr
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Paul Hampton
as Rusty Fargo
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David Huddleston
as Heavy Man
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Clifton James
as Speed
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Diane Ladd
as Barmaid at Railroad Station
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B.J. Mason
as Roosevelt Berry
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
as Themselves
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Sahdji
as Hollywood
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Geoffrey Edwards
as Irving
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Susan Batson
as Teenaged Girl
- Geraldine West
