The Day of the Locust

Name: The Day of the Locust
Director: John Schlesinger
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-05-07
Duration: 145 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page

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

★ 6.4 /10 (108) • 1975 • 2h 25m

Drama

Director John Schlesinger

Screenplay Waldo Salt

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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