- HD 1080
- Runtime: 145m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: John Schlesinger
- Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page
- keywords: based on novel or book, cinema on cinema, movie business, social satire, lynch mob, disturbed, lonely man, 1930s, movie mogul, aspiring artist, old hollywood, eve of world war ii, baffled
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions
- Slogan: By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
- The The Day of the Locust is featured in the top rankings of 1975
- #76 in Top Drama Movies of 1975
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.
