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Cradle Will Rock (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 132 mins

  • Director: Tim Robbins
  • Writer: Tim Robbins
  • Producer: Frank Beacham; Lydia Dean Pilcher

CGiii Comment

A rambling disaster of a film...with absolutely no focus.

Not too difficult to see why this film basically marked the end of Robbins' directing/writing career...$32 million of scatter-brained indulgence.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.

Cast & Characters

Hank Azaria as Marc Blitzstein;
Ruben Blades as Diego Rivera;
Joan Cusack as Hazel Huffman;
John Cusack as Nelson Rockefeller;
Cary Elwes as John Houseman;
Philip Baker Hall as Gray Mathers;
Cherry Jones as Hallie Flanagan;
Angus Macfadyen as Orson Welles;
Bill Murray as Tommy Crickshaw;
Vanessa Redgrave as Countess Constance LaGrange;
Susan Sarandon as Margherita Sarfatti;
Jamey Sheridan as John Adair;
John Turturro as Aldo Silvano;
Emily Watson as Olive Stanton;
Bob Balaban as Harry Hopkins