"Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!"

1981

3h 15m

6.9(358 votes)

Drama

History

Romance

Overview

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.

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Cast & Crew

85 members

Acting

Warren Beatty

John Reed

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Diane Keaton

Louise Bryant

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Edward Herrmann

Max Eastman

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Jerzy Kosiński

Grigory Zinoviev

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Jack Nicholson

Eugene O'Neill

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Paul Sorvino

Louis Fraina

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Maureen Stapleton

Emma Goldman

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Nicolas Coster

Paul Trullinger

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M. Emmet Walsh

Speaker at Liberal Club

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Ian Wolfe

Mr. Partlow

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Bessie Love

Mrs. Partlow

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MacIntyre Dixon

Carl Walters

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Pat Starr

Helen Walters

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Eleanor D. Wilson

Mrs. Reed

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Max Wright

Floyd Dell

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George Plimpton

Horace Whigham

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Harry Ditson

Maurice Becker

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Leigh Curran

Ida Rauh

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Kathryn Grody

Crystal Eastman

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Brenda Currin

Marjorie Jones

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Nancy Duiguid

Jane Heap

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Norman Chancer

Barney

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Dolph Sweet

Big Bill Haywood

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Ramon Bieri

Police Chief

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Jack O'Leary

Pinkerton Guard

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Gene Hackman

Pete van Wherry

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Gerald Hiken

Dr. Lorber

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William Daniels

Julius Gerber

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Dave King

Allan Benson

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Joseph Buloff

Joe Volski

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Stefan Gryff

Alex Gomberg

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Denis Pekarev

Interpreter in Factory

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Roger Sloman

Vladimir I. Lenin

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Stuart Richman

Leon Trotsky

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Oleg Kerensky

Alexander Kerensky / Himself - Witness

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Nikko Seppala

Young Bolshevik Soldier

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John J. Hooker

Senator Overman

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Shane Rimmer

MacAlpine

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Jerry Hardin

Harry

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Jack Kehoe

Eddie

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Christopher Malcolm

CLP Party Member #1

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Tony Sibbald

CLP Party Member #2

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R.G. Armstrong

Government Agent

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Josef Sommer

State Department Official

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Jan Tříska

Karl Radek

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Åke Lindman

Scandinavian Escort

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Pertti Weckström

Finnish Doctor

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Nina Macarova

Russian Nurse

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Jose De Fillippo

Russian Doctor

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Andreas La Casa

Little Boy

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Roger Baldwin

Himself - Witness

Writing

Henry Miller

Himself - Witness

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Adela Rogers St. Johns

Herself - Witness

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Dora Russell

Herself - Witness

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Scott Nearing

Himself - Witness

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Tess Davis

Herself - Witness

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Heaton Vorse

Herself - Witness

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Hamilton Fish

Himself - Witness

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Isaac Don Levine

Himself - Witness

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Writing

Rebecca West

Herself - Witness

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Will Durant

Himself - Witness

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Will Weinstone

Himself - Witness

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Emmanuel Herbert

Himself - Witness

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Arne Swabeck

Himself - Witness

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Adele Gutman Nathan

Herself - Witness

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George Seldes

Himself - Witness

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Kenneth Chamberlain

Himself - Witness

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Blanche Hays Fagen

Herself - Witness

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Galina von Meck

Herself - Witness

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Art Shields

Himself - Witness

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Andrew Dasburg

Himself - Witness

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Hugo Gellert

Himself - Witness

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Dorothy Frooks

Herself - Witness

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George Jessel

Himself - Witness

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Jacob Bailin

Himself - Witness

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John Ballato

Himself - Witness

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Lucita Williams

Herself - Witness

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Bernadine Szold-Fritz

Herself - Witness

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Jessica Smith

Herself - Witness

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Harry Carlisle

Himself - Witness

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Arthur Mayer

Himself - Witness

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Miriam Margolyes

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

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John Ratzenberger

Communist Leader (uncredited)

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Simon Jones

Louise Bryant's Colleague in France (uncredited)

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Jill Goldston

Dancing Woman (uncredited)

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