The Day of the Locust 1975 123movies

Watch: The Day of the Locust 1975 123movies, Full Movie Online – Life’s flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930’s Hollywoodland’s door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them..
Plot: 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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	6.9/10 Votes: 5,914
	65% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 64 Popularity: 4.426 | TMDB

Reviews:

Almost biblical…all too true!
Every now and then a true gem pops out of the past… that is, if you are a keen cinema-goer (or movie-viewer…as, nowadays, only kids go to the movies). The day of The Locust is what John Schlesinger had up his sleeve after the huge success of ‘Midnight Cowboy’. It was his ‘pot shot’ at Hollywood. It was his Guy Fawkes beneath Parliament. It was his warning that the Twin Towers story COULD just be a sordid masquerade…although, of course, he didn’t know it yet. They say that Hawthorne’s book is far more engrossing. Sure… books take up ten times more time to unravel. His characters are mean-spirited, calculating, ‘cold fish’…and what they get is what they deserve. But I feel Schlesinger and his script-writers made a worthwhile effort to imbue even these squirming serpents and cold-blooded insects with a breath of pathos, and humanity. And rightly so… the story GAINS points. ‘Locust’ sometimes feels more like Bergman, Fassbinder or (even) Fellini than like an American film. It reminds us of Grosz. Of German decadence between world wars. We are, often sub-consciously, led down grim corridors of analogy…. Nazi hysteria… Hollywood Boulevard madness. We are voyeurs… we watch a giant Dream Machine which spawns future mutants… frustrated maniacs. And literally DEVOURS its pathetic ‘extras’ and hopefuls. That is why the overtones of the film seem ,somehow, biblical. David Lynch’s source-material is suddenly openly revealed. THIS MOVIE! We have Twin Peaks themes and characters… Mulholand Drive, even more so… Blue Velvet…and so on… But hey! Let’s be fair…. anyone who has ever REALLY known Hollywood can only nod and say…”Yes…It’s all true…. And if I’m still here, in the industry,…. I’m either a hypocrite, a victim, or a pervert of sorts.” ALL the characters are crazed atoms of the American Dream Factory. And Schlesinger opts for a finale worthy of another British, but surprisingly hot-bloodedly so, director… Ken Russell. Madness on the rampage. But is he only a fine line away from exaggeration? Is he not symbolically ‘spot on’? That’s for you to decide. Meanwhile, the film has done the job it came to do. Maybe even better than ‘Chinatown’. And, believe me, the HEY DAY of Hollywood may seem far away and long ago… but the manic drive and sexual black-mail we observe in this reptilian display is all too contemporary to our time. Bon Apetit! (If your digestive system is up to it).

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 24 min (144 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director John Schlesinger
Writer Nathanael West, Waldo Salt
Actors Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Movielab, USA (prints), Technicolor (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm