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Set in Hollywood, California, just before World War II, the film conveys the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of people whose dreams of success do not come true. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is based on the 1939 novel of the same title by Nathanael West .
Jun 12, 1975 · With Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton. An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
- (6.5K)
- Drama, Thriller
- John Schlesinger
- 1975-06-12
That was the apocalyptic vision of Nathanael West's 1938 novel "The Day of the Locust," and it's a vision elaborated on, sometimes too literally, in John Schlesinger's expensive, daring, epic film. Hollywood is taken as a metaphor for an America that was moving from depression to war, and its fantasies outrun themselves until all that's left is ...
The Day of the Locust. In 1930s Los Angeles, Hollywood shines like a beacon to all the helpless people scattered across the city. In one crumbling apartment block, a blond bombshell...
- (35)
- John Schlesinger
- R
- Donald Sutherland
The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California. The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett, who has been hired by a Hollywood studio to do scene design and painting.
- Nathanael West
- 1939
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.
The Day of the Locust - Trailer. Paramount Movies Digital. 132K subscribers. 57K views 9 years ago. Nathanael West's novel about Hollywood decadence in the late '30s is a brilliant piece...
- 4 min
- 57.6K
- Paramount Movies Digital
