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The Day of the Locust
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.
John Schlesinger
Casts & Crew
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
Natalie Schafer
Jane Hoffman
Paul Stewart
John Hillerman
Paul Jabara
Norman Leavitt
Madge Kennedy
Ina Gould
Florence Lake
Margaret Willey
John War Eagle
Gloria Stroock
Nita Talbot
Nicholas Cortland
Alvin Childress
Byron Paul
Virginia Baker
Roger Price
Angela Greene
Robert O. Ragland
Abbey Greshler
Ann Coleman
Gyl Roland
William Castle
Fred Scheiwiller
Wally Rose
Grainger Hines
DeForest Covan
Michael Quinn
Robert Pine
Jerry Fogel
Dennis Dugan
David Ladd
Bob Holt
Queenie Smith
Margaret Aikens Jenkins
Jonathan Kidd
Wally K. Berns
Dick Powell Jr.
Also Directed by John Schlesinger
The great storyteller Hoffmann is losing himself to drink. His rival in love, Councillor Lindorf, claims that Hoffmann knows nothing of the heart, and so goads Hoffmann into telling the tales of his three great loves – each destroyed by a villain who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lindorf… First Hoffmann tells of his infatuation for the mechanical doll, Olympia – who is destroyed by the inventor Coppélius. Next comes the courtesan Giulietta, who throws over his adoration in favour of jewels from the magician Dappertutto. Finally, the gentle Antonia is forced to sing to her death by the wicked Doctor Miracle. His stories finished, Hoffmann rouses from his drunken stupor to find Lindorf has made off with Stella, Hoffmann’s latest love – but the Muse compels him to transform his heartache into art.
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Supernatural fantasy made by John Schlesinger and Alan Cooke as students.
John Schlesinger's 1957 film about the Wakes Week holiday in Blackburn looks at the tradition where mill towns shut down and thousands of workers head to Blackpool
Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars.
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a meek woman harbors a secret love for a man accused of fraud and sex offenses, forcing her to take a stand for the first time in her life.
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.