"The initial response to the new Howard Beale Show was not auspicatory. The press was, without exception, hostile and …"

"Prepare yourself for a perfectly outrageous motion picture!"

"Faye Dunaway - Diana Christensen"

"William Holden - Max Schumacher"

"Wesley Addy - Nelson Chaney"

"Ned Beatty - Arthur Jensen"

"Arthur Burghardt - Great Ahmed Kahn"

"Kathy Cronkite - Mary Ann Gifford"

"Conchata Ferrell - Barbara Schlesinger"

"[Final line in the film] This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because…"