I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Speech from the major motion picture "Network"
Actor Peter Finch would never see his own iconic performance as the Anchor Man who is highlighted in this video - he died of a massive heart attack shortly after filming this.
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
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Faye Dunaway | ||
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William Holden | ||
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Peter Finch | ||
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Robert Duvall | ||
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Wesley Addy | ||
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Ned Beatty | ||
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Arthur Burghardt | ||
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Bill Burrows |
TV Director
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John Carpenter |
George Bosch
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Jordan Charney |
Harry Hunter
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Kathy Cronkite |
Mary Ann Gifford
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Ed Crowley |
Joe Donnelly
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Jerome Dempsey |
Walter C. Amundsen
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Conchata Ferrell |
Barbara Schlesinger
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Gene Gross |
Milton K. Steinman
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Stanley Grover |
Jack Snowden
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Cindy Grover |
Caroline Schumacher
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Darryl Hickman |
Bill Herron
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Mitchell Jason |
Arthur Zangwill
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Paul Jenkins |
TV Stage Manager
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Ken Kercheval |
Merrill Grant
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Kenneth Kimmins |
Associate Producer
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Lynn Klugman |
TV Production Assistant
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Carolyn Krigbaum |
Max's Secretary
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Zane Lasky |
Audio Man
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Michael Lipton |
Tommy Pellegrino
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Michael Lombard |
Willie Stein
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Pirie MacDonald |
Herb Thackeray
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Russ Petranto |
TV Associate Director
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Bernard Pollock |
Lou
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Roy Poole |
Sam Haywood
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William Prince |
Edward George Ruddy
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Sasha von Scherler |
Helen Miggs
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Lane Smith |
Robert McDonough
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Ted Sorel |
Giannini (as Theodore Sorel)
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Beatrice Straight | ||
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Fred Stuthman |
Mosaic Figure
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Cameron Thomas |
TV Technical Director
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Marlene Warfield | ||
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Lydia Wilen |
Hunter's Secretary
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Lee Richardson |
Narrator (voice)
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John Chancellor |
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Walter Cronkite |
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Andrew Duncan |
Agent (uncredited)
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Todd Everett |
Reporter (uncredited)
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Betty Ford |
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Gerald Ford |
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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John Gabriel |
TV Anchor Reporting Beale's Suicide Threat (uncredited)
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Tom Gibney |
Announcer (uncredited)
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Lance Henriksen |
Network Lawyer at Khan's Place (uncredited)
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Raymond Martino |
Window Person (uncredited)
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Howard K. Smith |
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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David Susskind |
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Michael Tucker |
Man at Desk (uncredited)
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Ahmed Yamani |
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore.
We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'
Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'
I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis.
But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
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