The Day of the Locust (1975)

05/07/1975 (US) • 2h 25m

Drama

By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.

Overview

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.

Top Billed 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

Lelia Goldoni

Mary Dove


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

cinema on cinema

movie business

social satire

hollywood

los angeles, california

lynch mob

disturbed

accountant

lonely man

1930s

movie mogul

aspiring artist

old hollywood

eve of world war ii

film industry

baffled

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