Dir: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty
121 mins

25 June 2024 marks 100 years since the birth of the prolific Sidney Lumet – director of Network, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, and many more. Celebrate the career of a landmark filmmaker!

Howard Beale, a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he “skews old” – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast go ahead, hoping that the final event will give the network its greatest ratings ever.

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