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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 7, 1975 |
Starring:
Billy Barty, Bo Hopkins, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Karen Black, Lelia Goldoni, Pepe Serna, Richard Dysart, William Atherton
Summary:
An art director in the 1930s 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 alcoholic father.
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Magnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be. Nathanael West's novel about losers on the Hollywood fringe has lost little of its verisimilitude in adaptation.
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A tale of the losers and chancers rattling around Hollywood's fringe, the film fatally lacks the black humour and nightmarish edge of Nathanael West's source novel. But there are some good elements swarming through the muddle, not least the performances from Karen Black as a lowly starlet and Donald Sutherland as the emotional wreck who falls under her spell.
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A mosaic that never comes together.
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