The Day of the Locust

Name: The Day of the Locust
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-05-07
Duration: 145 min
Rating: 6.4

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

2h 25m English

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The Day of the Locust

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

2h 25m English

★ #5,324 Drama

#based on novel or book #movie business #cinema on cinema #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

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.

Director John Schlesinger

Screenplay Waldo Salt Novel Nathanael West