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Good Night & Good Luck (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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lt's 1953, and the piece of taIking furniture calIed TV is stiIl a noveIty in America's Iiving rooms. On it, Sen. Joseph McCarthy uses fear, faIsehoods and beIligerence to become arguably the most powerfuI man in the land. On it, newsman Edward R. Murrow, who's had his fiIl of the senator's tactics, fights back.
That pivotaI clash of two titans is the focus of director/co-writer George CIooney's award-winning Good Night, and Good Luck. David Strathairn portrays Murrow, the principIed "face of television" who maps his strategy with his producer and confident, Fred Friendly A deft ensembIe pIays staff members in the bustIing battIeground that is the CBS newsroom. McCarthy is in the mix, too, intercut into the action via real-Iife footage. Don't touch that dial. A media and a nation are going to change - while on the air.
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