John Schlesinger

The Day of the Locust - USA Long Road 1975 - 1 DVD - 144 min.

An art director in the 1930's 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 acoholic father.

Nathanael West Nathanael West

Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.


Language(s): English, Italian
Subtitle(s): English, Turkish, Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian


Horror
Drama

DVD 001236