A hard-boiled anchorman arrives in New Orleans, finds work in an ultra-conservative radio station, W.U.S.A., and goes along with the reactionary politics of his sponsor. Then, along with the prostitute he is living with and a progressive activist next-door neighbor, he becomes aware of the corruption that the institutions and the media share. A preview of paranoia in Rosenberg’s honest political drama, with the strong support of Paul Newman (also producer), who considered it one of his best movies.
Biography
film director

Stuart Rosenberg
(New York, USA, 1927 – Beverly Hills, USA, 2007) is famous, above all, thanks to his collaborations with Paul Newman, who he directed in Cool Hand Luke, WUSA, Pocket Money (1972), and The Drowning Pool (1975). He was nominated five times for the Directors Guild of America Award and won a Primetime Emmy Award. His other movies include the horror film The Amityville Horror; the prison movie Brubaker, starring Robert Redford; and the noir The Pope of Greenwich Village, starring Mickey Rourke. He taught directing at the American Film Institute.
FILMOGRAFIA
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Alfred Hitchcock presenta, tv, 1959-1960), The Twilight Zone (Ai confini della realtà, tn, 1960-1963), Murder, Inc. (Sindacato assassini, 1960), Question 7 (1961), Rawhide (Gli uomini della prateria, tv, 1965), Fame Is the Name of the Game (Conoscete Ellen Bowen?, tv, 1966), Cool Hand Luke (Nick mano fredda, 1967), The April Fools (Sento che mi sta succedendo qualcosa, 1969), Move (Dai... muoviti, 1970), WUSA (Un uomo oggi, 1970), Pocket Money (Per una manciata di soldi, 1972), The Laughing Policeman (L’ispettore Martin ha teso la trappola, 1973), The Drowning Pool (Detective Harper: acqua alla gola, 1975), Voyage of the Damned (La nave dei dannati, 1976), The Amityville Horror (Amityville Horror, 1979), Love and Bullets (Tiro incrociato, 1979), Brubaker (id., 1980), The Pope of Greenwich Village (Il Papa del Greenwich Village, 1984), Let’s Get Harry (Eroi per un amico, 1986).
Cast
& Credits
Stuart Rosenberg
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Robert Stone, dal suo romanzo/from his novel A Hall of Mirrors
fotografia/cinematography
Richard Moore
montaggio/film editing
Bob Wyman
scenografia/production design
Philip M. Jefferies
musica/music
Lalo Schifrin
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Paul Newman (Rheinhardt), Joanne Woodward (Geraldine), Anthony Perkins (Rainey), Laurence Harvey (Farley), Pat Hingle (Bingamon), Cloris Leachman (Philomene)
produttori/producers
John Foreman, Paul Newman
produzione/production
Paramount Pictures


