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Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) The Popular Rage

Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Howard Beale

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Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) The Popular Rage TV entertainment executive Diana (Faye Dunaway in her Academy Award-winning role) first with her assistant (Conchata Ferrell) then with network big shot Hackett (Robert Duvall), raving about the anchorman gone-mad, in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, 1976.

Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Howard Beale Howard K. Smith, John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite appear in narrated opening to Sidney Lumet's Network, 1976, which also introduces Howard (Peter Finch) and Max (William Holden), from Paddy Chayefsky's script.

Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Blow My Brains Out Ending the credits and leading into the precipitating event, Howard Beale (Peter Finch), just-dismissed anchor for the fictional UBS network news, draws no attention in the control room, profanity ensuing, Sidney Lumet directing from Paddy Chayefsky’s celebrated original screenplay, in Network, 1976.

Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Middle Of Act Two Beatrice Straight (as "Louise") in the scene that won her Academy Award as supporting actress, with husband Max (William Holden) who's just confessed his affair with a younger TV executive, in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, 1976.

Absence Of Malice (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Off The Record Miami reporter Megan (Sally Field), with editor McAdam (Josef Sommer), decides to visit scheming Federal union-corruption task force lawyer Rosen (Bob Balaban), early in Sydney Pollack's Absence Of Malice, 1981.

Absence Of Malice (1981) -- (Movie Clip) He's My Best Friend Miami businessman Michael (Paul Newman) arrives home to find friend and catholic-school secretary Teresa (Melinda Dillon) worrying about his being named in a newspaper story about a presumed murder, early in Sydney Pollack's Absence Of Malice, 1981.

Absence Of Malice (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Dealing With Girilfriends Catholic school secretary Teresa (Melinda Dillon) meets reporter Megan (Sally Field), hoping to alibi her murder suspect friend (Paul Newman, not seen), revealing her secret almost an hour into the film, in Sydney Pollack's Absence Of Malice, 1981.

Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Mad As Hell! Supported by entertainment exec Diana (Faye Dunaway) in the news control room, fired anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) ousts his substitute and delivers his mad-prophet tirade, the most famous scene from Network, 1976, from Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay.

Network (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Primal Forces Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is summoned for another landmark scene, in which Jensen (Ned Beatty) tells him the corporate way of the world, in Network, 1976, directed by Sidney Lumet from Paddy Chayefsky's script.

French Connection, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Marseilles Brief credits then a quick introduction of Charnier (Fernando Rey) in Marseilles, and the stalking of a victim by the mostly unseen Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi), from William Friedkin's The French Connection, 1971.

French Connection, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) They're All Cousins! New York cops Popeye (Gene Hackman) and Cloudy (Roy Scheider), at the Copacabana, with The Three Degrees performing a Jimmy Webb Song, can't help noticing gangsters, especially Sal Boca (Tony Lo Bianco) and decide to give chase, in an early scene from William Friedkin's The French Connection, 1971.

French Connection, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Popeye's Here! Cop Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), with partner Russo (Roy Scheider), blows into a rough Manhattan bar with a torrent of profanity, his real aim being to divert attention away from a consultation with his informant Hector (Al Fann) in William Friedkin's The French Connection, 1971.

Tootsie - (Original Trailer) Ten Academy Award nominations went to Tootsie (1982) in which an unemployed actor (Dustin Hoffman) masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role.

Network - (Re-issue Trailer) Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into "the mad prophet of the airwaves" in Network (1976) starring Peter Finch.

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