Released
The Day of the Locust
May 7 1975 (over 49 years ago)Rating
63
Based on
91 reviews
By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
- Director: John Schlesinger
- Writer: Waldo Salt
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 2 h 25 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions
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.
