Robert Redford’s Quiz Show unveils the insidious corruption at the heart of Twenty One, America’s favourite TV show in the 1950s, capturing the look and atmosphere of the time.
MC Jack Barry (Christopher McDonald) is the Svengali to competing “contestants”, brash Jewish Herbie Stempel (John Turturro) and WASP intellectual Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes). Rob Morrow is the legal eagle who uncovers the scam.
Jack Barry
Christopher McDonald Herbie Stempel
John Turturro Charles Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes Dick Goodwin
Rob Morrow Mark Van Doren
Paul Scofield Dan Enright
David Paymer Albert Freedman
Hank Azaria Toby Stempel
Johann Carlo Dorothy Van Doren
Elizabeth Wilson Robert Kintner
Allan Rich Sandra Goodwin
Mira Sorvino Lishman
Paul Guilfoyle Pennebaker
Michael Mantell
Director
Robert Redford
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