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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
The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American satirical historical drama film directed by John Schlesinger. It stars Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, Richard Dysart, John Hillerman and Geraldine Page.
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.
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- 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 ...
In one crumbling apartment block, a blond bombshell (Karen Black) aspires to be an actress, an artist (William Atherton) looks for legitimacy, and a child actor performs a gross homage to Mae West...
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- John Schlesinger
- R
- Donald Sutherland
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare.
A novel by Nathanael West about Tod Hackett, a set designer in Hollywood who observes the decay and violence of the city and its inhabitants. The novel depicts Tod's obsession with Faye Greener, a young woman who attracts several admirers, and his painting of "The Burning of Los Angeles".
