| | Day Of The Locust DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Recommended Movies, Based On A Novel Videos, Cult, Satire, Period Piece, Hollywood, Film About Film, Filmmakers, Corruption, Filmmaking, 1930s | | Starring | Donald Sutherland, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Karen Black, Bo Hopkins, Richard Dysart, Billy Barty, John Hillerman, Geraldine Page, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni | | Director | John Schlesinger | | Composer | John Barry | | Costume Designer | Ann Roth | | Director of Photography | Conrad L. Hall | | Editor | Jim Clark | | Producer | Jerome Hellman | | Production Designer | Richard MacDonald | | Screenwriter | Waldo Salt | | Source Writer | Nathanael West |
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English Based on Nathanael West's satirical novel, John Schlesinger's THE DAY OF THE LOCUST is an absorbing look at the desperate characters who populate the Hollywood film industry. Idealistic young set designer Tod Hackett (William Atherton) travels to 1930s-era Hollywood to find fame and fortune but encounters a dismal world of broken people, shattered dreams, and phoney healers pandering to the lost. He soon falls in love with aspiring actress Faye Greener (Karen Black), a cruel, manipulative woman who lives with her drunken father (Burgess Meredith, in an Oscar-nominated performance) and loves the strange man-child Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland). Their passions collide at a disastrous Hollywood premiere that remains one of the most horrifying and tragic climaxes in film history. "The Day of the Locust" was originally a project for Warner Bros., but was picked up and released by Paramount Pictures. Original producer Ronald Shedlo received a presentation credit in the finished film.
The San Bernardino Arms apartment complex seen in the film is a studio set for a structure that is just two blocks from the Paramount lot.
Additional cast: Dick Powell Jr. (Dick Powell).
Color by Technicolor, though Movielab is credited for the print work. Day Of The Locust Reviews: "...In many ways remarkable....A panoramic movie..."-- Vincent Canby, New York Times "Bristling with brilliant scenes....It lurches between satire and the truly horrifying."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut Day Of The Locust | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.49) | | Studio | Paramount Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1975 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  22940  | | CD Universe Part number | 6652420 | | Catalog number | 86794 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 08, 2004 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 144 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Subtitled |
Day Of The Locust Movie Review Day Of The Locust DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Restored Mono - English
Dolby Surround - English
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Day Of The Locust Video All That Jazz, Bad and the Beautiful, Barton Fink, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Big Knife, Dying Gaul, Garden Party, In a Lonely Place, Mulholland Dr., Player, Sunset, Sunset Boulevard Buy Day Of The Locust DVD Purchase Day Of The Locust Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Deranged/Motel Hell - Midnite Movies Double Feature DVD (1974) Widescreen
Day Of The Locust film
 $10.29  
This double feature contains two cult classics from the slasher genre. Features included are DERANGED (1974;R) and MOTEL HELL (1980;R). See individual titles for more detailed synopsis.
Soundtrack English
| | Macbeth DVD (2004) New Video Group, Inc.
Day Of The Locust review
$9.29 
With a stellar cast that includes two Academy Award winners--namely, Judy Dench and Ian McKellen--this lavish production of Shakespeare's MACBETH is a great way to experience the classic play. Known as "The Scottish Play," the story follows the trials and tribulations of Macbeth (McKellan) as he becomes entangled in murderous schemes by his wife, Lady Macbeth (Dench), but succumbs to horrific nightmares and visions during his ascension to the throne. Once crowned King of Scotland, Macbeth's terrible feelings of guilt prove to be his downfall. Powerful and moving in equal measures, this is a wonderful way to experience the rightly-lauded play.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English
| | Blancanieves DVD (1937) City Hall
Day Of The Locust DVD
$9.05
A Spanish-language version of the magical, classic Disney fairy tale, BLANCANIEVES is a Princess forced to flee from her jealous stepmother. Lost in the woods, she encounters a group of friendly dwarves who take her in. She finds happiness with them, caring for their little cottage while they work in the mines. Each one has a unique personality that the Princess is able to find lovable, but when the evil Queen learns of her whereabouts, even the strength of the dwarves devotion cannot save her. Cast under a spell of eternal sleep, Snow White's Prince Charming is the only one who can rescue her. This is one of the first animated features ever made, and its timeless, enchanting charm is as mesmerizing today as it was in 1937. Dubbed into Spanish.
Here is the classic children's story of "Snow White & The Seven Dwarves" presented in a feature film. DVD extras section includes a trivia game. Features audio in English and Spanish. Color, NTSC, Region Code: Multizone, format: DVD-5, length: 60 minutes
| | Enemy Of Women DVD (1944) Remastered
Day Of The Locust movie DVD
$10.69
An exploitative movie about Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and the various unfortunate women in his life.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Paul Newman Collection DVDs (2006) Widescreen; Gift Set
Day Of The Locust video
$46.89 
A selection of Paul Newman films are included on this collection. The titles featured are: THE DROWNING POOL, HARPER, THE LEFT-HANDED GUN, THE MACKINTOSH MAN, POCKET MONEY, SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME, and THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS. Please see individual titles for synopsis information.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Sierra DVD (2005) Full Frame; Spanish
Day Of The Locust film
$22.09 
LA SIERRA is an intense, unflinching documentary about several young people living in Medellin, Columbia. The town is perpetually caught in the crossfire between two warring factions--the guerillas and the paramilitary forces--and the film explores the burden of life during wartime with a personal and deeply unsettling focus.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles
| | Guide To Professional Blues Guitar DVD (2007)
Day Of The Locust review
$9.75
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Bobby DVD (2006) Full Frame
Day Of The Locust DVD
$9.69
An ambitious labor of love from writer/director/star Emilio Estevez, BOBBY attempts to distill the hope, anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the late 1960s. With the civil rights movement still reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the country embroiled in the confusion of Vietnam, Senator Robert F. Kennedy's campaign preached a message of peace and tolerance. In a style similar to the sprawling works of Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson, Estevez uses the June 4th, 1969, assassination of Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles as the means to take a snapshot of the problems facing the country as the 1960's came to an end.
The hotel is a microcosm of class and race, with characters bouncing off each other until the violent conclusion. African-American head chef Edward (Laurence Fishburne) presides over a kitchen staffed primarily by Mexican Americans who are the victims of the racist restaurant manager, Timmons (Christian Slater). Timmons is reprimanded by hotel manager Paul Ebbers (William H. Macy), who is having an affair with a switchboard operator (Heather Graham) behind the back of his beautician wife (Sharon Stone). Meanwhile, a young Diane (Lindsay Lohan) prepares to marry her classmate, William (Elijah Wood), in order to save him from going to Vietnam, and two collegiate campaigners for Senator Kennedy remove their ties to take their first LSD trip, courtesy of a resident hippie drug dealer (Ashton Kutcher). Though the sheer volume of characters--and celebrities portraying them--is often overwhelming, Estevez is deft at making each plot thread convincing and involving. Though BOBBY is not a biopic and will in no way be mistaken for the definitive statement on the man or his life and times, it is thoroughly adept at distilling both his message and the time in which he fought to deliver it.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Le Spectacle DVD (2007) (Import)
Day Of The Locust movie DVD
$44.25 | | Monchy & Alexandra - En Vivo Desde Bellas Artes DVD (2008)
Day Of The Locust video
$11.05
Dominican bachata stars Monchy & Alexandra perform a selection of their biggest hits on this concert recording. The duo are hugely popular in Latin America, and this show, which includes a selection of old favorites and some newer material, was taped in Peurto Rico.
Monchy & Alexandra return with their latest DVD offering recorded live in Puerto Rico. This is the first time a Bachata group performed for a sold-out audience in this legendary theater. The DVD includes their top hits. This performance DVD brings us the live sound of this incomparable duo as well as some new surprises.
|
|
|
Email a Friend
