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Citizen Cohn is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Pierson released in USA on 22 august 1992 with James Woods

Citizen Cohn (1992)

Citizen Cohn
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Released in USA 22 august 1992
Length 1h51
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical
Rating70% 3.5408053.5408053.5408053.5408053.540805

Citizen Cohn is a 1992 cable film covering the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn. James Woods, who starred as Cohn, was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance. Citizen Cohn also stars Joe Don Baker (as McCarthy), Ed Flanders (as Cohn's courtroom nemesis Joseph Welch), Frederic Forrest (as writer Dashiell Hammett), and Pat Hingle (as Cohn's onetime mentor J. Edgar Hoover). It was directed by Frank Pierson. The movie was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Synopsis

The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings and his eventual public discrediting a month before his death in 1986 from AIDS. It is told mostly in flashback as Cohn lies dying in a Virginia hospital, hallucinating that his many enemies (from Robert Kennedy to Ethel Rosenberg, a convicted Communist spy he sent to the electric chair) are haunting him. It concerns aspects of Cohn's life such as his closeted homosexuality and the measure of his culpability in the "Red Scare" of the 1950s.
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Actors

James Woods

(Roy Marcus Cohn)
Joe Don Baker

(Sen. Joseph McCarthy)
Joseph Bologna

(Walter Winchell)
Lee Grant

(Dora Cohn)
Ed Flanders

(Joseph N. Welch)
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