Reds

Communication. FilmsGOLDMAN, Emma (1869-1940)Russian Revolution of 1917

• Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, See more
• Director: Warren Beatty
Cast List
Warren Beatty ... John Reed
Diane Keaton ... Louise Bryant
Edward Herrmann ... Max Eastman
Jerzy Kosinski ... Grigory Zinoviev
Jack Nicholson ... Eugene O’Neill
Paul Sorvino ... Louis Fraina
Maureen Stapleton ... Emma Goldman
Nicolas Coster ... Paul Trullinger
M. Emmet Walsh ... Speaker - 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 ... V.I. Lenin
Stuart Richman ... L. Trotsky
Oleg Kerensky ... A. Kerensky/Witness
Nikko Seppala ... Young Bolshevik Soldier
John J. Hooker ... Senator Overman
Shane Rimmer ... MacAlpine
Jerry Hardin ... Harry
Jack Kehoe ... Eddie
Christopher Malcolm ... C.L.P. Party Member
Tony Sibbald ... C.L.P. Party Member
R.G. Armstrong ... Government Agent
Josef Sommer ... State Department Official
Jan Triska ... 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 ... Witness
Henry Miller ... Witness
Adela Rogers St. Johns ... Witness
Dora Russell ... Witness
Scott Nearing ... Witness
Tess Davis ... Witness
Heaton Vorse ... Witness
Hamilton Fish ... Witness
Isaac Don Levine ... Witness
Rebecca West ... Witness
Will Durant ... Witness
Will Weinstone ... Witness
Emmanuel Herbert ... Witness
Arne Swabeck ... Witness
Adele Gutman Nathan ... Witness
George Seldes ... Witness
Kenneth Chamberlain ... Witness
Blanche Hays Fagen ... Witness
Galina von Meck ... Witness
Art Shields ... Witness
Andrew Dasburg ... Witness
Hugo Gellert ... Witness
Dorothy Frooks ... Witness
George Jessel ... Witness
Jacob Bailin ... Witness
John Ballato ... Witness
Lucita Williams ... Witness
Bernadine Szold-Fritz ... Witness
Jessica Smith ... Witness
Harry Carlisle ... Witness
Arthur Meyer ... Witness
Anthony Forrest ... Harry Reed
John Herman Shaner ... Socialist Prisoner
Dwayne Brenna ... Extra
US 1981
(196 mins.)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Genre: Drama (more)
Tagline: Not since Gone With The Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!
Plot Outline: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States
Warren Beatty’s sweeping epic on the last years of journalist John Reed’s life (1887-1920) is a passionate love story set against the background of bohemian living and revolutionary fervor. Reed’s fame rests largely on his classic work of committed journalism, "Ten Days That Shook The World," a first-hand account of the early days of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, but the film is as much about the position of left-wing radicals in the United States at that time as about the Russian revolution. Incorporating interviews with Reed’s real-life contemporaries (Rebecca West, Henry Miller, George Seldes, Will Durant and others) as punctuation, REDS explores the internal dynamics of the socialist struggle in America with inspired performances by Beatty as Reed, Diane Keaton as journalist Louise Bryant, Reed’s independent-minded lover (both of them Portlanders before moving to New York), Jack Nicholson as playwright Eugene O’Neill, novelist Jerzy Kosinski as Soviet leader Zonovie and Maureen Stapleton as anarchist Emma Goldman.