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Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)

Directed by Eugene Corr, Robert Hillmann

Overview

Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and with clips from Salt’s films, chiefly Midnight Cowboy.

Length 57 minutes

Actors

Robert Redford | Dustin Hoffman | Ring Lardner, Jr. | Peter Coyote | Jon Voight | Waldo Salt | John Schlesinger | James Leo Herlihy | Jerome Hellman | Jennifer Salt | Mary Davenport | George Litto | Paul Jarrico