Reds
Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill.
Plot
In 1915, married journalist and suffragist Louise Bryant encounters the radical journalist John Reed for the first time at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, and is intrigued with his idealism. After meeting him for an interview on international politics that lasts an entire night, she realizes that writing has been her only escape from her frustrated existence. Inspired to leave her husband, Bryant joins Reed in Greenwich Village, New York City, and becomes acquainted with the local community of activists and artists, including anarchist and author Emma Goldman and the playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Awards
Cast
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
- Bernardine Szold Fritz
- Bessie Love
- Christopher Malcolm
- Dave King
- Diane Keaton
- Dolph Sweet
- Dora Russell
- Edward Herrmann
- Gene Hackman
- George Jessel
- George Plimpton
- Harry Ditson
- Henry Miller
- Ian Wolfe
- Jack Kehoe
- Jack Nicholson
- Jan Tříska
- Jerry Hardin
- Jerzy Kosiński
- John J. Hooker
- John Ratzenberger
- Josef Sommer
- Joseph Buloff
- Kathryn Grody
- Leigh Curran
- M. Emmet Walsh
- Maureen Stapleton
- Max Wright
- Nancy Diuguid
- Nicolas Coster
- Oleg Kerensky
- Paul Sorvino
- R. G. Armstrong
- Ramon Bieri
- Rebecca West
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Roger Sloman
- Scott Nearing
- Shane Rimmer
- Simon Jones
- Stuart Richman
- Warren Beatty
- Will Durant
- William Daniels