| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 7, 1975 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
Magnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be. Nathanael West's novel about losers on the Hollywood fringe has lost little of its verisimilitude in adaptation.
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Schlesinger's adaptation of Nathaniel West's classic novella, the Hollywood of the 1930s is decidedly as ruinous for its denizens as the Hollywood of the 1970s. [28 Jul 2000]
Exquisitely painful look at how Hollywood turns its hopefuls into whores. [03 May 1992, p.B35]
There's vivid period atmosphere and similarly vibrant performances from a cast headed by Karen Black and Donald Sutherland. [24 Mar 1985, p.5]
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