Network
Country of Origin:  United States
Production year: 1976
Director: Sidney Lumet
Rating: Rating
UPC [Locale]: 5-050070-010008
Running time: 1:57 (117 Min.)
Casetype: Keep Case
Format: Color, 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
DVD-Format: Single-Sided, Single-Layered
Released: March 17, 2003
Collection type: Owned (#772)
Status: Available
Purchase date: September 08, 2010
Purchase price: Hidden
Review (movie): 0 / 10
Review (video): 0 / 10
Overview
Even more compelling and relevant today than when it was first released, Network is a wickedly funny, spot-on indictment of the TV news media. Winner of four Academy Awards* it pulses with vitality and a provocative excitement that is rarely found.

Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall star in this searing portrait of television exploitation. When longtime news anchor Howard Beale (Finch) is fired, he suffers a violent, on-air breakdown. But when his sagging ratings are boosted by his angry rantings, he's subsequently rehired and reinvented as the "mad prophet of the airways".
Of course, when the "prophet" ceases to be profitable, something has to be done about Beale, preferably on camera, before a live studio audience...
DVD Covers

Network


Network

Misc.
 • Profile Contributors
 • Invelos Profile Links
 • US IMDb
 • Wikipedia
Genres
Comedy
Drama
Studios
Production Studios:
 • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 • United Artists
Media Companies:
 • Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Audio format
English  Dolby Digital Mono
German  Dolby Digital Mono
French  Dolby Digital Mono
Italian  Dolby Digital Mono
Spanish  Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Features
Scene Access, Feature Trailers, Prod. Notes/Bios
Crew
Direction
Sidney Lumet....Director
Writing
Paddy Chayefsky....Writer
Production
Howard Gottfried....Producer
Cinematography
Owen Roizman....Director of Photography
Film Editing
Alan Heim....Film Editor
Music
Elliot Lawrence....Composer
Sound
Jack Fitzstephens....Sound Editor
Sanford Rackow....Sound Editor
Marc M. Laub....Sound Editor
Dick Vorisek....Sound Re-Recording Mixer
James Sabat....Production Sound Mixer
Art
Philip Rosenberg....Production Designer
Theoni V. Aldredge....Costume Designer
Lee Harman....Make-up Artist
John Alese....Make-up Artist
Cast
Faye Dunaway....Diana Christensen
William Holden....Max Schumacher
Peter Finch....Howard Beale
Robert Duvall....Frank Hackett
Wesley Addy....Nelson Chaney
Ned Beatty....Arthur Jensen
Arthur Burghardt....Great Ahmed Kahn
Bill Burrows....TV Director
John Carpenter....George Bosch
Jordan Charney....Harry Hunter
Kathy Cronkite....Mary Ann Gifford
Ed Crowley....Joe Donnelly
Jerome Dempsey....Walter C. Amundsen
Conchata Ferrell....Barbara Schlesinger
Gene Gross....Milton K. Steinman
Stanley Grover....Jack Snowden
Cindy Grover....Caroline Schumacher
Darryl Hickman....Bill Herron
Mitchell Jason....Arthur Zangwill
Paul Jenkins....TV Stage Manager
Ken Kercheval....Merrill Grant
Kenneth Kimmins....Associate Producer
Lynn Klugman....TV Production Assistant
Carolyn Krigbaum....Max's Secretary
Zane Lasky....Audio Man
Michael Lipton....Tommy Pellegrino
Michael Lombard....Willie Stein
Pirie MacDonald....Herb Thackeray
Russ Petranto....TV Associate Director
Bernard Pollock....Lou
Roy Poole....Sam Haywood
William Prince....Edward George Ruddy
Sasha von Scherler....Helen Miggs
Lane Smith....Robert McDonough
Theodore Sorel....Giannini
Beatrice Straight....Louise Schumacher
Fred Stuthman....Mosaic Figure
Cameron Thomas....TV Technical Director
Marlene Warfield....Laureen Hobbs
Lydia Wilen....Hunter's Secretary
Lee Richardson....Narrator (voice)
Todd Everett....Reporter (uncredited)
Lance Henriksen....Network Lawyer (uncredited)