Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. John Schlesinger's film of Nathanial West's iconic novel Day of the Locust has been hanging in there with film buffs for so long I think it is about time it was acknowledged as the minor masterpiece that it is. When Adore trips and falls, Homer begins violently stomping on him, crushing his bones and organs, effectively killing him. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. | While outside, Homer observes the various men drunkenly fawning over Faye through a window. Tod's unit has a crack in a wall caused by an earthquake; he puts a bright red flower in the crack. Every now and then a true gem pops out of the past... that is, if you are a keen cinema-goer (or movie-viewer...as, nowadays, only kids go to the movies). General Boards. A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter. (house of movie producer), Hollywood Sign, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, Mausoleum of the Golden West, Inglewood Park Cemetery - 720 Florence Avenue, Inglewood, California, USA, Gittelson Brothers Hollywood Boulevard Golf Course - 5263 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, California, USA In Hollywood, the unholy swarm never stops. Later, Faye and Homer host a party attended by Tod, Abe, Earle, Miguel, and Claude Estee, a successful art director. We are, often sub-consciously, led down grim corridors of analogy.... Nazi hysteria... Hollywood Boulevard madness. 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. It was his warning that the Twin Towers story COULD just be a sordid masquerade...although, of course, he didn't know it yet. And Schlesinger opts for a finale worthy of another British, but surprisingly hot-bloodedly so, director... Ken Russell. Edit. Many people I met there - some of them became friends - seemed to share features of the characters in "The Day of the Locust", maybe it had something to do with their unfulfilled dreams and their lack of success. I first saw "Day of the Locust" because I thought Karen Black was keen. I'm either a hypocrite, a victim, or a pervert of sorts." Terrific cast and director (John Schlesinger) capture the look and feel of 30s Hollywood. TV-PG   |  Of German decadence between world wars. Rewarding but Hard Going. (premiere), Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Hollywood Palladium - 6215 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA ***SPOILERS*** Based on Nathanael West's 1939 short story "Day of the Locust" the film lives up to all it's hype even though it was hardly a smashing box office success back in 1975 when it was released. In the heat of the moment, that moment being only a few after having completed viewing this astonishing small epic. Other Games. (miniature golf scene - demolished), Grauman's Chinese Theater - 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA I had heard and read about how shocking and powerful it was. It was his 'pot shot' at Hollywood. ALL the characters are crazed atoms of the American Dream Factory. A drunken Tod becomes enraged when Faye dances with Miguel, and chases after her, apparently to rape her, but she fends him off. Nominated for 2 Oscars. It reminds us of Grosz. Waldo Salt's script is first-rate. (1975). The Day of the Locust (1975) Trivia (35) Add new The name of Donald Sutherland's character is "Homer Simpson", which is also a lead character name in The Simpsons (1989) and its spin-offs. Tech Support. That is why the overtones of the film seem ,somehow, biblical. ", Jay Cocks of Time said; "The Day of the Locust looks puffy and overdrawn, sounds shrill because it is made with a combination of self-loathing and tenuous moral superiority.

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