The Day of the Locust

Original title: The Day of the Locust

145 minutes • 1975 • 6.4 Score

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

Director