Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) on Netflix
In 1953, CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred W. Friendly take on Senator Joseph McCarthy. Murrow's first story: Air Force officer Milo Radulovich, convicted on sealed charges.
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Plot summary
In the fall of 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin tells the country that Communists have filled posts inside the American government. Edward R. Murrow, a CBS journalist, wants his program to look instead at the military, which has convicted an Air Force officer, Milo Radulovich, on charges kept in a sealed envelope. Five days later, Murrow, his producer Fred W. Friendly and CBS director Sig Mickelson watch a correspondent's interview with Radulovich. Mickelson says the report is unbalanced and the correspondent has editorialized. Military officers visit Friendly's office to urge him not to broadcast it, and CBS airs the story anyway. The team then turns to McCarthy himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
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- George Clooney took a symbolic $1 salary each for writing, directing and acting in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film that cost just $7.5 million to make.
- Clooney could not get insured for the production because of an injury from the set of Syriana shortly before, so he personally mortgaged his own Los Angeles house to help pay for the film.
- To fake characters riding an elevator between floors, the crew built the 'elevator' on a giant rotating turntable straddling two floor sets built at the same level, spinning it while the doors were shut so the actors appeared to arrive somewhere new when the doors reopened.
- The film takes dramatic license by showing the CBS executive offices, the CBS News offices and the See It Now studio as one building, when in reality they were three separate real locations: 485 Madison Avenue, a building north of Grand Central Terminal later demolished for the MetLife Building, and Grand Central Terminal itself above the waiting room.
