WUSA (1970) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Stuart Rosenberg
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins,
Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle, Cloris Leachman,
Moses Gunn, Bruce Cabot, Don Gordon,
Wayne Rogers, Leigh French, Michael Anderson Jr.
Three lost souls turn up in New Orleans, where a right-wing radio station is blasting hate to the masses. Robert Stone wrote the screenplay from his novel "A Hall of Mirrors", and it's a cynical, despairing journey into America's heart of darkness, eerily predating and anticipating both Fox News and Donald Trump. There's not much in it to cheer you up, and the picture was not a commercial success. Moral ambivalence doesn't always translate well to the screen, and that's kind of what Stone does. Robert Altman would take a more whimsical approach to similar material in "Nashville" in 1975.
