Movie info
| Languages: | English, Russian, German, French, Finnish |
| Filming dates: | August 1979 - December 1980 |
| Budget: | USD 35,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 31,802,166 USD (21 February 1982) |
| Plot: | 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. |
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"You're a Grand Old Flag" Written by George M. Cohan "Over There" Written by George M. Cohan "Yankee Doodle Boy" Written by George M. Cohan "Onward Christian Soldiers" Written by Sabine Baring-Gould (as S. Baring-Gould) & Arthur Sullivan (as A. Sullivan) "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" Written by L. Wolfe Gilbert & Lewis F. Muir (as Louis F. Muir) "Liebesfreud" Written by Fritz Kreisler "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" Words by Philip Wingate Music by Henry W. Petrie (as H.W. Petrie) Performed by Diane Keaton "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" Written by A. Seymour Brown (as A.S. Brown) & Nat Ayer (as Nat D. Ayer) "America the Beautiful" Written by Katherine Lee Bates (as Katherine L. Bates) & Samuel A. Ward "St. Louis Tickle" Written by Barney & Seymour & Glen Snelgrove "Dill Pickles" Written by Al Bryan and Charles L. Johnson "Rattlesnake Rag" Written by Lou Busch (as Louis F. Bush) & Eddy Lawrence Manson (as Eddy Hanson) "Stop Your Ticklin' Me" Written by Jack Little & Walter Hirsch "The Crazy Otto Rag" Written by Edward R. White & Mack Wolfson (as Maxwell A. Wolfson) & Luigi Creatore & Hugo Peretti (as Hugo E. Peretti) "Cartoon Rag" Michael Karp "Country Club - Ragtime Two-Step" Written by Scott Joplin Performed by Joshua Rifkin Courtesy of Nonesuch Records "Just a Little Love Song" Written by Joe Young (as Joseph Young), Sam Lewis (as Sammuel M. Lewis) and Joe Cooper "The Internationale" Written by Pierre Degeyter and Eugène Pottier "The Red Army is the Most Powerful of All" Moscow Radio Chorus Recording courtesy of Folkways Records "The Engine" Moscow Radio Chorus Recording courtesy of Folkways Records "Valse Bluette" Music by Leopold Auer Played during the hotel restaurant scene |
Goofs
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DATE: When Louise first comes to New York and finds John's apartment (during the time of WWI), some of the apartment windows behind her have air conditioning units. Fact errors: During the tram ride in Petrograd there is a modern traffic sign visible (a yellow line on red background: forbidden driving direction). DATE: The pet dog is a Golden Retriever but the first Golden (Champion Speedwell Pluto) wasn't imported into the US from England until 1930 Continuity: In the scene where Gene and Louise talk in Gene's apartment, the position of Gene's cigarette pack changes radically from shot to shot. DATE: The Finnish doctor tells Reed that his blood pressure is too high, but at that time, hypertension was not considered a problem by most doctors, who did not even consider treating it. Not until the mid-'40s did doctors begin to understand the dangers of high blood pressure. DATE: In the scene of the Booster's dinner in Portland is in 1915 and the announcer says that he's ready to make the world safe for democracy. In 1915 the United States was still neutral and the phrase "make the world safe for democracy," was actually part of Woodrow Wilson's war message to Congress which he gave on April 2, 1917, two years after the Portland event. |
Quotes
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Emma Goldman: I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain. Eugene O'Neill: I'd like to kill you, but I can't. So you can do whatever you want to. Except not see me. Eugene O'Neill: If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. We'd be the center of it all. I know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work. Eugene O'Neill: You dream that if you discuss the revolution with a man before you go to bed with him, it'll be missionary work rather than sex. Louise Bryant: I'd like to see you with your pants off, Mr. Reed. John Reed: Louise, I love you. Louise Bryant: No, you love yourself! Me, you FUCK! Louise Bryant: What as? John Reed: Well, it's almost Thanksgiving. You could go as a turkey. John Reed: Profits. Max Eastman: I'll walk you home. Emma Goldman: Why? I won't hurt anyone. [repeated line] Louise Bryant: Taxi's waiting, Jack. [repeated line] Louise Bryant: I write. Eugene O'Neill: Jack dreams that he can hustle the American working man, who's one dream is that he could be rich enough not to work, into a revolution led by *his* party. John Reed: All right, Miss Bryant, do you want an interview? Write this down. Are you naïve enough to think containing German militarism has anything to do with this war? Don't you understand that England and France own the world economy and Germany just wants a piece of it? Keep writing, Miss Bryant. Miss Bryant, can't you grasp that J. P. Morgan has loaned England and France a billion dollars? And if Germany wins, he won't get it back! More coffee? America'd be entering the war to protect J. P. Morgan's money. If he loses, we'll have a depression. So the real question is, why do we have an economy where the poor have to pay so the rich won't lose money? John Reed: Look, what does a capitalist do? Let me ask you that, Mike. Huh? Tell me. I mean, what does he make, besides money? I don't know what he makes. The workers do all the work, don't they? Well, what if they got organized? Louise Bryant: Would you rather I not smoke during rehearsal? Eugene O'Neill: I'd rather you went up in flames than crush out your cigarette during a monologue about birth. [repeated line] Eugene O'Neill: Where's the whiskey? |
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