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About
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Theatrical
Dec 25, 1981
Box Office
$40.4M
Budget
$35.0M
Return
1.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 10, 2006
Theaters
1
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
JRS Productions, Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance, Paramount Pictures
Keywords
husband wife relationship
world war i
war correspondent
biography
based on true story
co-workers relationship
docudrama
russian revolution (1917)
russian history
greenwich village
russian civil war (1918-21)
1920s
1910s
political repression
government witch hunt
bolshevism
soviet union history
american journalist
Quotes
See all →Conflict Over Creative Control and Financial Pressure
John Reed
You don't get to rewrite what I write! You don't get to rewrite what I write!
Pete Van Wherry
Stubborn son-of-a-bitch. How are you gonna pay your rent?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
A Walk Home and Its Implications
Max Eastman
I'll walk you home.
Emma Goldman
Why? I won't hurt anyone.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →W
Warren Beatty
John Reed
Diane Keaton
Louise Bryant
E
Edward Herrmann
Max Eastman
J
Jerzy Kosiński
Grigory Zinoviev
J
Jack Nicholson
Eugene O'Neill
P
Paul Sorvino
Louis Fraina
M
Maureen Stapleton
Emma Goldman
N
Nicolas Coster
Paul Trullinger
M
M. Emmet Walsh
Speaker at Liberal Club
I
Ian Wolfe
Mr. Partlow
B
Bessie Love
Mrs. Partlow
M
MacIntyre Dixon
Carl Walters
P
Pat Starr
Helen Walters
E
Eleanor D. Wilson
Mrs. Reed
M
Max Wright
Floyd Dell
G
George Plimpton
Horace Whigham
H
Harry Ditson
Maurice Becker
L
Leigh Curran
Ida Rauh
K
Kathryn Grody
Crystal Eastman
B
Brenda Currin
Marjorie Jones
