The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust (1975)

1975-05-07 · 145 min · Rating 6.40/10 (108 votes)

By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.

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.

Keywords

1930s accountant aspiring artist baffled based on novel or book cinema on cinema disturbed eve of world war ii film industry hollywood lonely man los angeles, california lynch mob movie business movie mogul old hollywood social satire

Videos