This acclaimed comedy with its serious compelling theme vividly brings to life one of the America’s most disturbing memories: the Communist ‘witch hunts’ of the ‘50s. Woody Allen stars as Howard Prince a small-time restaurant cashier part time bookie & full-time loser who is induced by a writer friend to front for the submission of his of his TV scripts when he is blacklisted for an alleged subversive. Howard is soon ‘fronting’ for other writers. He becomes a celebrity & is lionized as television’s most brilliant & prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel) is blacklisted & his career is threatened he agrees to keep Howard under surveillance. Howard is then summoned to appear before an investigation committee & his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion.