Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

57 mins | Documentary | Jan. 19, 1990

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.

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

57 mins | Documentary | Jan. 19, 1990

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Eagle Rock Entertainment, Thirteen, Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
Original title Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Directors Robert Hillmann, Eugene Corr
Writers Eugene Corr

Cast

Peter Coyote

as Narrator (voice)

Waldo Salt

as Self (archive footage)

Mary Davenport

as Self

Jennifer Salt

as Self

Jerome Hellman

as Self

Dustin Hoffman

as Self

Paul Jarrico

as Self

George Litto

as Self

Robert Redford

as Self

Jon Voight

as Self