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The Day of the Locust (1975)
Directed by John Schlesinger
“By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.”
Drama · 2h 25m
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Cast
Donald Sutherland
Homer Simpson
Karen Black
Faye Greener
Burgess Meredith
Harry Greener
William Atherton
Tod Hackett
Geraldine Page
Big Sister
Richard Dysart
Claude Estee
Bo Hopkins
Earle Shoop
Pepe Serna
Miguel
Lelia Goldoni
Mary Dove
Jackie Earle Haley
Adore Loomis
Billy Barty
Abe Kusich
Gloria LeRoy
Mrs. Loomis
Crew
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Screenplay
- Waldo Salt
- Novel
- Nathanael West
- Director of Photography
- Conrad Hall
- Original Music Composer
- John Barry
- Editor
- Jim Clark
- Producer
- Jerome Hellman
Details
- Release date
- 1975-05-07
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions