Quiz Show
Fifty million people watched but no one saw a thing.
Country
Budget
$31 000 000
Box office
$24 822 619
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Michael Nozik, Robert Redford, Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Richard Dreyfuss, Frederick Zollo, Judith James
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Jon Hutman, Tony Fanning, Ed Check
Audition
Editing
Stu Linder
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Whole Team (166)
Short description
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. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Before filming began, the lead actor, Ralph Fiennes, expressed a desire to speak with the real Charles Van Doren in order to accurately convey his accent. However, there was no certainty that Van Doren would agree to such a conversation. Then, Fiennes and a member of the crew drove to the province where Van Doren lived and found him sitting in a chair outside his house. Fiennes pretended to be lost and asked Van Doren to show him the way.
- The correct answer to the question, which film won the “Oscar” for Best Picture in 1955, is known to Herbert Stempel (played by John Turturro). Nevertheless, he gives an incorrect answer, naming Elia Kazan's (1909-2003) 1954 crime drama “On the Waterfront,” where the main character deliberately loses a boxing match he could have won.
- Charles Van Doren (1926-2019), 17 participants of the TV quiz show, and the producer confessed to lying to the grand jury in New York. They were all sentenced to probation. The district attorney estimated that out of 150 people who testified before the grand jury, 100 were lying under oath.
- The film does not state that anyone went to jail or suffered any punishment for “cheating” on the TV quiz shows. However, it is known that individuals were tried for obstructing justice and perjury. The scandal led to significant changes in the rules of TV quiz shows. Many quiz shows were canceled, and the genre itself almost became a thing of the past.
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