Film still from The Front showing Zero Mostel as Hecky Brown in a library/office type room with a bookcase, wall photos and a curtained window behind him. He's dressed in a suit coat but his shirt is a casual pink one, and his red bow tie is small; he's also wearing a hat with the brim turned up all around which looks small on his head. The adjacent text is "Clowning in the key of bleak. Zero Mostel."
Some thought the 1976 comedy The Front should have been serious, but the writer, director and some of the stars had been blacklisted themselves, including Zero Mostel, #botd in 1915, who gave a searing performance of despair as the blacklisted Hecky Brown. Still very timely.
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