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The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust

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The Day of the Locust

R·1975·145m

Summary

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.

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Director

John Schlesinger

Novel

Nathanael West

Screenplay

Waldo Salt

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

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$0.00

Keywords

based on novel or book
cinema on cinema
movie business
social satire
lynch mob
disturbed
lonely man
1930s
movie mogul
aspiring artist
old hollywood
eve of world war ii
baffled