Guilty by Suspicion
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Guilty by Suspicion

Year:
Duration:
105 min
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
Irwin Winkler
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1991-03-15
Filming Locations: 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
Earnings
Gross: $9,480,198 (USA) Copyright Holder © 1990 Warner Bros. Inc. Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
Robert De Niro
David Merrill
Annette Bening
Ruth Merrill
George Wendt
Bunny Baxter
Patricia Wettig
Dorothy Nolan
Sam Wanamaker
Felix Graff
Luke Edwards
Paulie Merrill
Chris Cooper
Larry Nolan
Ben Piazza
Darryl Zanuck
Martin Scorsese
Joe Lesser
Barry Primus
Bert Alan
Gailard Sartain
Chairman Wood
Robin Gammell
Congressman Tavenner
Brad Sullivan
Congressman Velde
Tom Sizemore
Ray Karlin
Roxann Dawson
Felicia Barron (as Roxann Biggs)
Stuart Margolin
Abe Barron
Barry Tubb
Jerry Cooper
Gene Kirkwood
Gene Woods
Margo Winkler
Leta Rosen
Allan Rich
Leonard Marks
Illeana Douglas
Nan, Zanuck's Secretary
Al Ruscio
Ben Saltman
Bill Bailey
20th Century Fox Guard
Adam Baldwin
FBI Agent #1
Nicholas Cilic
Matt Nolan
Claude Rauvier
Claude Rowan
Stephen Root
RKO Guard
John Horn
Mike Rainey
Jon Tenney
Shopper Husband
Cecile Callan
Shopper Wife
Tom Rosqui
Norman
Monica Carrico
Nelly Lesser
Jonathan Ames
Cabbie
Brant von Hoffman
Stanley
F.J. O'Neil
Ad Agency Executive
Joan Scott
Teacher
Dianne E. Reeves
Singer
Paul Collins
Bernard
James Mathers
Director
Kevin Page
FBI Agent #2
Joe Bennett
Choreographer
Robert Chimento
Assistant Director
Craig Smith
Director of Photography
Maurice Marciano
Costume Designer
Martin Arsenault
Waiter
Ben Dinsdale
Maurice
Russell Bobbitt
Prop Master
Cindy Carey
Party Guest
Ivor Leslie Dilley
First Assistant Director
Natalie Zimmerman
Woman on Buckboard
Fred Apolito
Party Guest (uncredited)
Gail L. Harrington
Christmas Party Receptionist (uncredited)
Sophiah Koikas
Party guest (uncredited)
Jimmy Noonan
FBI Agent (uncredited)
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Trivia
Blacklisted writer/director Abraham Polonsky wrote the original screenplay for the film. When Irwin Winkler decided to rewrite the script by changing De Niro's character from a Communist to a more generic Liberal, Polonsky had his name removed from the film's credits. "I wanted it to be about Communists because that's the way it really happened. ... They didn't need another story about a man who was falsely accused," he said in an interview in the New York Times.
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Robert De Niro's character walks in front of a poster from the play 'A Tramway named Desire', an evident reference to its director Elia Kazan - a famous informer who denounced his friend director John Berry (the inspiration for De Niro's character).
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In Irwin Winkler's rewrite of Abraham Polonsky's script, the David Merrill character was changed from a Communist Party member to a relatively apolitical liberal. Winkler based his conception of Merrill on blacklisted director John Berry, who played a nightclub owner in the Winkler-produced 'Round Midnight (1986). Ironically, Berry had been, like the original character written by Polonsky, a communist at the time of the Hollywood Red Scare.
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Goofs
When the di Niro character visits Zanuck watching dailies early on in the movie, we see that the dailies on screen are Marilyn singing a number from "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds" and Zanuck tells "Howard" (Hawks) the director (on the phone) that he can't see any difference in the various takes. GPB 1953 and the last scenes of GBS are Feb 1952.
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There is a Milwaukee Braves baseball pennant on the wall of Merrill's son's room. This film takes place in 1951 and 1952. The Braves didn't move to Milwaukee from Boston until 1953.
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Before going to London, Joe is seen editing the classic The Boy with the Green Hair, but the movie was already released in 1948 and Guilty by Suspicion story takes place in the 1950's.
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Quotes
Larry Nolan: Don't make me crawl through the mud... they're my friends.
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Congressman Velde: I wanna know how many Communists you knew. I wanna know how many you know, how many you've worked with. I wanna know what your association is with them.
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David Merrill: [about Dorothy Nolan] She was a good wife, a good mother, and you're responsible for her death. She was falsely accused, she couldn't get work, her son was taken away from her - all because of this committee. In the name of ridding the world of Communism, you destroyed her life.
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