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The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust

By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
May 07, 1975 2h 25m
6.3
95 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title The Day of the Locust
Companies Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions
Countries United States of America
Keywords based on novel or book, cinema on cinema, movie business, social satire, hollywood, los angeles, california, lynch mob, disturbed, accountant, lonely man, 1930s, movie mogul, aspiring artist, old hollywood, eve of world war ii, baffled