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Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film [3] [4] directed and produced by Robert Redford. Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio [ 5 ] adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin , a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. [ 6 ]
Oct 7, 1994 · Quiz Show: Directed by Robert Redford. With John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield. A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Robert Redford
- 1994-10-07
In 1958, the popular NBC's show "Twenty One" is suspicious of being fixed. Richard Goodwin, a young Congressional lawyer, becomes curious of the fraud and de...
- 116 min
- 145.8K
- Dennis Wade
Quiz Show. PG-13 Released Sep 14, 1994 2h 10m Drama. 97% Tomatometer 117 Reviews. 87% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings. Queens-born Herbie Stempel (John Turturro) becomes an unlikely hero after ...
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- Robert Redford
- PG-13
- John Turturro
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged.
- Robert Redford
- 15
- 15
Richard Goodwin (Rob Morrow), a young Congressional lawyer, learns that the grand jury findings have been sealed and travels to New York City to investigate rumors of rigged quiz shows. Visiting a number of contestants, including Stempel and Van Doren, he begins to suspect that Twenty-One is a fixed operation.
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The 1950s have been packaged as a time of Eisenhower and Elvis, Chevy Bel-Airs and blue jeans, crew cuts and drive-ins. "Quiz Show" remembers it was also a decade when intellectuals were respected, when a man could be famous because he was a poet and a teacher, when TV audiences actually watched shows on which experts answered questions about Shakespeare and Dickens, science and history.
