An effective comedy drama about the McCarthy era, directed with his usual restraint by Martin Ritt, snappily written by blacklistee Walter Bernstein.
Woody Allen is a 50s nerd who allows his name to be used by blacklisted writers in submitting their scripts to television, and his good-natured imposture finally drags him into a confrontation with an Un-American committee whom he tells off in very quotable terms, answering the “have you now or ever been. . .” question with “I question your right to ask me these questions, and furthermore you can go fuck yourselves.”
Zero Mostel, also a blacklist survivor, has a poignant bit as a suicidal comic.