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Reviews. Day of the Locust. Roger Ebert May 23, 1975. Tweet. "Day of the Locust," by Jason Hernandez. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The locusts are the little people, faceless and sad, who accumulate on the benches of Los Angeles, waiting for a bus that will never come.
The Day of the Locust was released by Paramount Pictures in 1975. The film was directed by John Schlesinger and starred William Atherton as Tod Hackett, Donald Sutherland as Homer Simpson, Burgess Meredith as Harry Greener, and Karen Black as Faye Greener.
- Nathanael West
- 1939
Screenplay. 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.
Home. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1975) Written By: Martin Unsworth. It may sound like a hokey fifties giant bug movie, but it’s actually an astute and often troubling look behind the scenes of Hollywood during the 1930s.
93 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. A Plague Descends. bkoganbing 24 January 2009. It took over 35 years and the collapse of the big studio system before anyone in Hollywood, in this case Paramount, brought Nathanael West's novel The Day Of The Locust to the big screen.
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Film Details. Also Known As. Day of the Locust, jour du fléau. MPAA Rating. Genre. Drama. Release Date. 1975. Technical Specs. Duration. 2h 24m. Sound. Mono. Color. Tod Hackett, a new arrival to Los Angeles and aspiring art director, is trying to make it in Hollywood in the late 1930's.
May 7, 1975 · Synopsis by Clarke Fountain. The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy.
