Quiz Show

Fifty million people watched but no one saw a thing.

An 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.

Direction

Robert Redford

Screenplay

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Paul Attanasio

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Richard N. Goodwin