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The Day of the Locust (1975)

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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 8, 2004

MPAA Rating
R

Running Time
2 hours, 24 minutes

Country USA

Studio Paramount

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Other Titles
• The Day of the Locust
• Der Tag der Heuschrecke (1975)



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Genre: Drama, Horror, Satire, Hollywood, Cult Classic, Period Piece, Surreal, Melodrama, Christmas, Showbiz

Tagline: By train. By car. By bus. They came to Hollywood... In search of a dream.

Plot: Based on Nathanael West's satirical novel, John Schlesinger's THE DAY OF THE LOCUST is an absorbing look at the desperate characters who populate the Hollywood film industry. Idealistic young set designer Tod Hackett (William Atherton) travels to 1930s-era Hollywood to find fame and fortune but encounters a dismal world of broken people, shattered dreams, and phoney healers pandering to the lost. He soon falls in love with aspiring actress Faye Greener (Karen Black), a cruel, manipulative woman who lives with her drunken father (Burgess Meredith, in an Oscar-nominated performance) and loves the strange man-child Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland). Their passions collide at a disastrous Hollywood premiere that remains one of the most horrifying and tragic climaxes in film history.

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 Directed by
John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, The Next Best Thing
 Written by
Waldo Salt
Midnight Cowboy, Serpico, The Flame and the Arrow
 Cast
Donald Sutherland
The Italian Job, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Cold Mountain
Karen Black
House of 1000 Corpses, Family Plot, Five Easy Pieces
Burgess Meredith
Rocky, Rocky III, Rocky II
William Atherton
Die Hard, The Last Samurai, Ghost Busters
Geraldine Page
The Rescuers, Interiors, White Nights
Richard A. Dysart
The Thing, Being There, Hard Rain
Bo Hopkins
U Turn, American Graffiti, The Wild Bunch
[more]
 Music By
John Barry
Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger, Moonraker



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