• 1981

  Release Date

• December 3rd, 1981

• Runtime

• 195 minutes

• Synopsis

• This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.

• CAST

• Warren Beatty - John Reed,   Diane Keaton - Louise Bryant,   Edward Herrmann - Max Eastman,   Jerzy Kosiński - Grigory Zinoviev,   Jack Nicholson - Eugene O'Neill,   Paul Sorvino - Louis Fraina,   Maureen Stapleton - Emma Goldman,   Nicolas Coster - Paul Trullinger,   M. Emmet Walsh - Speaker at Liberal Club,   Ian Wolfe - Mr. Partlow,   Bessie Love - Mrs. Partlow,   MacIntyre Dixon - Carl Walters,   Pat Starr - Helen Walters,   Eleanor D. Wilson - Mrs. Reed,   Max Wright - Floyd Dell,   George Plimpton - Horace Whigham,   Harry Ditson - Maurice Becker,   Leigh Curran - Ida Rauh,   Kathryn Grody - Crystal Eastman,   Brenda Currin - Marjorie Jones,   Nancy Duiguid - Jane Heap,   Norman Chancer - Barney,   Dolph Sweet - Big Bill Haywood,   Ramon Bieri - Police Chief,   Jack O'Leary - Pinkerton Guard,   Gene Hackman - Pete van Wherry,   Gerald Hiken - Dr. Lorber,   William Daniels - Julius Gerber,   Dave King - Allan Benson,   Joseph Buloff - Joe Volski,   Stefan Gryff - Alex Gomberg,   Denis Pekarev - Interpreter in Factory,   Roger Sloman - Vladimir I. Lenin,   Stuart Richman - Leon Trotsky,   Oleg Kerensky - Alexander Kerensky / Himself - Witness,   Nikko Seppala - Young Bolshevik Soldier,   John J. Hooker - Senator Overman,   Shane Rimmer - MacAlpine,   Jerry Hardin - Harry,   Jack Kehoe - Eddie,   Christopher Malcolm - CLP Party Member #1,   Tony Sibbald - CLP Party Member #2,   R.G. Armstrong - Government Agent,   Josef Sommer - State Department Official,   Jan Tříska - Karl Radek,   Åke Lindman - Scandinavian Escort,   Pertti Weckström - Finnish Doctor,   Nina Macarova - Russian Nurse,   Jose De Fillippo - Russian Doctor,   Andreas La Casa - Little Boy,   Roger Baldwin - Himself - Witness,   Henry Miller - Himself - Witness,   Adela Rogers St. Johns - Herself - Witness,   Dora Russell - Herself - Witness,   Scott Nearing - Himself - Witness,   Tess Davis - Herself - Witness,   Heaton Vorse - Herself - Witness,   Hamilton Fish - Himself - Witness,   Isaac Don Levine - Himself - Witness,   Rebecca West - Herself - Witness,   Will Durant - Himself - Witness,   Will Weinstone - Himself - Witness,   Emmanuel Herbert - Himself - Witness,   Arne Swabeck - Himself - Witness,   Adele Gutman Nathan - Herself - Witness,   George Seldes - Himself - Witness,   Kenneth Chamberlain - Himself - Witness,   Blanche Hays Fagen - Herself - Witness,   Galina von Meck - Herself - Witness,   Art Shields - Himself - Witness,   Andrew Dasburg - Himself - Witness,   Hugo Gellert - Himself - Witness,   Dorothy Frooks - Herself - Witness,   George Jessel - Himself - Witness,   Jacob Bailin - Himself - Witness,   John Ballato - Himself - Witness,   Lucita Williams - Herself - Witness,   Bernadine Szold-Fritz - Herself - Witness,   Jessica Smith - Herself - Witness,   Harry Carlisle - Himself - Witness,   Arthur Mayer - Himself - Witness,   Miriam Margolyes - Woman with Notebook (uncredited),   John Ratzenberger - Communist Leader (uncredited),   Simon Jones - Louise Bryant's Colleague in France (uncredited),   Jill Goldston - Dancing Woman (uncredited)     

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