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Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
1981 · Directed by Miloš Forman · 155 min · Drama · History · 10 frames
Tagline
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
Crew
- Screenplay: Michael Weller
- Cinematography: Miroslav Ondříček
- Edited by: Anne V. Coates, Antony Gibbs, Stanley Warnow
- Music: Randy Newman
- Production design: John Graysmark, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Tony Reading
- Produced by: Dino De Laurentiis
Cast
- James Cagney as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
- Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
- Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
- Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
- Kenneth McMillan as Willie Conklin
- Pat O'Brien as Delmas
- Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
- James Olson as Father
- Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
- Howard Rollins as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd.
- Themes: new york city, based on novel or book, jazz singer or musician, public murder, racism, class differences, pianist, ragtime, revenge killing, radical politics
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