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050 _aAMR DVD 000190
100 _9202333
_aRobert Redford
245 _aQuiz Show
260 _aUSA
_bHollywood Pictures
_c1994
300 _a1 DVD
306 _a133 min
520 _aAn idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.
520 _aIn 1958 when television quiz shows ruled the airwaves, Charles Van Doren was the wildly popular champion of a successful TV show called "Twenty-One." A national celebrity who appeared on the covers of both "Time" and "Life" magazines, Van Doren was an American folk hero. Week after week audiences tuned in to watch as Van Doren, a popular English instructor at Columbia University and the product of one of America's most renowned literary families, seemed to draw from his vast knowledge the correct answers to obscure questions. His charming presence seduced 50 million people into believing him. But the truth is, viewers were fooled and saw only what the network and program's producers wanted them to see. Then someone pulled the plug. When disgruntled contestant Herbie Stempel charged that the quiz game was a fraud, Congressional investigator Richard Goodwin uncovered the facts that exposed the deception, and sent shock waves reverberating across America.
546 _aLanguages: English, French
_aSubtitle: English
650 _9121652
_aHistory
650 _9119658
_aDrama
700 _9194971
_aTurturro, John.
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_a Rob Morrow
700 _9569373
_aRalph Fiennes
700 _9226163
_aPaul Scofield
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