The Day of The Locust
– An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hol..
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.
08 Aug 1975
English
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
John Schlesinger
Nathanael West (novel), Waldo Salt (screenplay)
Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Hollywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
Paramount Pictures