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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: Dec 8, 1999
Running Time: 132 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
The story of the staging of Marc Blitzstein's 1937 musical "The Cradle Will Rock", which the government placed an injunction against. The actors led the audience through New York to another venue and acted in the auditorium without props or costumes, just one action during the charged Depression-era in which Orson Welles and John Houseman's theatrical collaborations pushed artistic and political boundaries.
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Marc Blitzstein
Nelson Rockefeller
John Houseman
Orson Welles
Margherita Sarfatti
Hazel Huffman
Olive Stanton
Aldo Silvano
Diego Rivera
Countess La Grange
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reviews
Billed as "a (mostly) true story," "Cradle Will Rock" is an interesting and vibrant look at American theater and art worlds facing adversity in 1930s New York played out as a cautionary tale against artistic censorship. With an imaginative and informative original screenplay that seamlessly harmonizes true-life events and characters with fictionalized ones and acted with a labor-of-love energy by a cast of over a dozen well-respected actors from both film and stage, Tim Robbins' third… |
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