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Reds [25th Anniversary Edition] [2 Discs]

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Reds [25th Anniversary Edition] [2... DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Brenda Currin, Noel Davis, MacIntyre Dixon, Will Durant, Kathryn Grody, Stefan Gryff, Gene Hackman, Jerry Hardin, R.G. Armstrong, Roger Baldwin, Ramon Bieri, Phil Brown, Joseph Buloff, Norman Chancer, Gerald Hiken, Jack Kehoe, Ake Lindman, Christopher Malcolm, Jack O'Leary, George Plimpton, Stuart Richman, Shane Rimmer, Tony Sibbald, Roger Sloman, Pat Starr, Dolph Sweet, Jan Triska, William Daniels, Harry Ditson, George Jessel, Patsy Pollock, Josef Sommer, Max Wright, Gretchen Rennell, Nancy Foy, Jane Jenkins, Marion Dougherty, Adela Rogers St. John, Leigh Curran, Art Shields, Hamilton Fish III, Arthur Mayer, Rebecca West, Eleanor D. Wilson, Dave King, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Nicolas Coster, M. Emmet Walsh, Ian Wolfe, Bessie Love

Director(s): Warren Beatty

Features:
Witness to Reds: The Rising, Comrades, Testimonials, Revolution - Part 1, Revolution - Part 2, The March, Propaganda
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Reds [25th Anniversary Edition] [2... DVD Details

Video:
Alternate Wide Screen (1.78:1)
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital Mono
Language:
English
French
Subtitles:
English

Running Time: 195
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 097360133127
Product Code: PRT013312DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1981
Studio: Paramount

Reds [25th Anniversary Edition] [2... DVD Summary Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist John Reed (who is the only US citizen buried in the Kremlin).

The film is an effort to humanize a political movement that has previously been depicted on screen in a series of unsubtle and prejudicial broad strokes.

The film begins in 1915, when Reed (Beatty) makes the acquaintance of married Portland journalist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton).

So persuasive is Reed's point of view--and so charismatic is Reed himself-- that Bryant kicks over the traces and joins Reed and his fellow radicals.

Among the famous personages depicted herein are Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton), Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson) and Max Eastman (Richard Herrmann).

The second half of this nearly-200-minute film skims through the years when Reed, now a Russian resident, becomes disillusioned by the harsh realities of Bolshevism.

Despite the celebrity line-up of real-life "witnesses" to the events depicted in the film (ranging from novelist Henry Miller to comedian George Jessel!), historians took Reds to task for its oversimplification of events and its laundering of the notoriously promiscuous Louise Bryant.