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Citizen Cohn
- Director: Frank Pierson
- Writer: Nicolas von Hoffman; David Franzoni
- Producer: Doro Bachrach; Linda Gottlieb
CGiii Comment
A Jew who persecuted Jews and a gay man who persecuted gays - that was Cohen - a right-wing vulgar fanatic.
This is his story - be warned: it is not enjoyable.
Woods is convincing...he will make your skin crawl.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In the 50's, the ambitious and unscrupulous Jewish prosecutor Roy Marcus Cohn convinces Senator Joseph McCarthy to be his Chief Counselor in his hunting against communists. The arrogant Cohn destroys careers and lives and becomes a Jew hunting Jews and a gay hunting gays. In 1985, he dies of AIDS in a hospital in New York.
Cast & Characters
James Woods as Roy Marcus Cohn;
Joe Don Baker as Sen. Joseph McCarthy;
Joseph Bologna as Walter Winchell;
Ed Flanders as Joseph N Welch;
Frederic Forrest as Dashiell Hammett;
Lee Grant as Dora Cohn;
Pat Hingle as J. Edgar Hoover;
John McMartin as Older Doctor;
Josef Sommer as Albert Cohn;
Daniel Benzali as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman;
Tovah Feldshuh as Iva Schlesinger;
John Finn as Sen. Charles Potter;
Frances Foster as First Annie Lee Moss;
Allen Garfield as Abe Feller;
David Marshall Grant as Robert F. Kennedy