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Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Sidney Lumet directs Paddy Chayefsky's satire (an Academy Award winning screenplay) about the things people do for love and ratings. Three performers won Oscars. Best Actress Faye Dunaway is the TV exec guarding ratings like a tigress protecting cubs. Best Actor Peter Finch is Beale, whose airwave rants become a phenomenon and William Holden, Robert Duvall and Best Supporting Actress Beatrice Straight add to the fierce vitality.

Starring: Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Bernie Pollack, Ken Kimmins, Lance Henriksen, Russ Petranto, Todd Everett, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Stanley Grover, Darryl Hickman, Mitchell Jason, Paul Jenkins, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Lynn Klugman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Zane Lasky, Michael Lipton, Michael Lombard, Pirie MacDonald, Roy Poole, William Prince, Sasha von Scherler, Lane Smith, Theodore Sorel, Beatrice Straight, Fred Stuthman, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilen, Lee Richardson

Director: Howard Gottfried, Paul Graetz

Rating: R