Point of Order
(1964)
Produced in the USA in 1964, black and white, mono sound, 93 mins.; re-edited in 1975 to 55 mins. for TV and released as McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter with Paul Newman as host.
Production:
- Directed by Emile de Antonio
- Written by Robert Duncan, Emile de Antonio
- Produced by Daniel Talbot, Emile de Antonio
- Film Editing by Robert Duncan
- Editorial Consultants David Bazelon, Richard Rovere
Notes:
This film is a documentary of the Army-McCarthy hearings that were televised live for 36 days from Apr. 22 to May 24, 1954, to an average daily audience of 20 million. Emile de Antonio used kinescopes of portions of the hearings to make this film. The hearings were held by the Senate committee on Government Operations investigating the Army's induction of Roy Cohn's friend G. David Schine, Army's honorable discharge of Major Irving Peress who had refused to answer Loyalty Board questionnaire, and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens' refusal to allow officers to testify before McCarthy's committee.
Republican Majority:
- Joseph McCarthy, Chair
- Karl Mundt, Temporary Chair
- Everett Dirksen
- Henry Dworshale
- Charles Potter
Democratic Minority:
- John McClellan
- Henry Jackson
- Stuart Symington
Legal staff of Republicans:
- Ray Jenkins, Chief Counsel
- Roy Cohn, Frances Carr, James Juliano, Robert Collier
Legal staff of Democrats:
- Robert Kennedy, Minority Counsel
Legal staff of Army:
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Filmnotes | revised 11/15/01 by Schoenherr
