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.
Eugene Corr
Director, Writer
Robert Hillmann
Director

Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)

Mary Davenport
Self

Jennifer Salt
Self

Jerome Hellman
Self

James Leo Herlihy
Self

Dustin Hoffman
Self
Paul Jarrico
Self

Ring Lardner, Jr.
Self

George Litto
Self
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