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The Day of the Locust

Release Date:May 7, 1975

Running Time:145 min

Genres:Drama

Director

Cast

Donald Sutherland Karen Black Burgess Meredith William Atherton Geraldine Page Richard Dysart Bo Hopkins Pepe Serna Lelia Goldoni Jackie Earle Haley Billy Barty Gloria LeRoy

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

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.

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