The Day of the Locust
By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
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.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions
- Keyword: 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
- Cast: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard Dysart