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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 and starring 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
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.
Watchlist. 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 (Karen Black) aspires to ...
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- John Schlesinger
- R
- Donald Sutherland
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.
The Day of the Locust, novel by Nathanael West, published in 1939, about the savagery lurking beneath the surface of the Hollywood dream. It is one of the most striking examples of the “Hollywood novel”—those that examine the unattainable fantasies nurtured by the Hollywood movie industry.
