Waldo Salt

Waldo Salt (1914-87) weathered more than fifty years as a screen-writer in Hollywood and his credits include successes such as Midnight Cowboy, Serpico and The Day of the Locust. This profile, which includes archive footage of Salt himself, uses film extracts and interviews with Jon Voight, John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford to probe the subtle art of his writing and the joy he found in the collaborative process of film-making.