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5.4/10   95 votes
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Director:
Paul Williams
Writers:
Hans Koningsberger (novel)
Hans Koningsberger (screenplay)
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Release Date:
22 March 1971 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Action | Drama more
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User Comments:
Low budget drama has it's moments more (2 total)

Cast

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Jon Voight ... A

Seymour Cassel ... Leonard II

Robert Duvall ... Despard
Collin Wilcox Paxton ... Ann (as Collin Wilcox-Horne)
Jennifer Salt ... Helen
Elliott Sullivan
Alexandra Berlin ... Nurse
Warren Stanhope ... 'A's Father
Peter Carlisle
John Orchard
George Margo
Earl Cameron ... Speaker

Julie Garfield ... Girl
Alan Tilvern ... Sid
Lionel Murton ... The Professor
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-8 | Sweden:11 | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG
Company:
Pressman-Williams Productions more

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Trivia:
Jeffrey Jones' movie debut. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Die Tote aus der Themse (1971) more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Low budget drama has it's moments, 16 January 2002
5/10
Author: John Seal from Oakland CA

It's too low key to arouse much passion, but The Revolutionary is a reasonably interesting look at radical left wing activity in the late 60s. Jon Voight mumbles his way through his role as a college student wrestling with his conscience (and getting expelled for listening to it). Robert Duvall is on hand as a more experienced organiser and Seymour Cassel is his usual fun self as Leonard, the token hippie. There are some very good moments,including a scene where Voight is caught painting anti-capitalist manifestos on a wall. There's also a wonderful pawn shop sequence that gets to the heart and soul of the film's thesis, but too much screen time is spent on Voight's struggling relationships with women. All in all, a period piece that will be of interest to anyone interested in the hard left aspects of political life in the turbulent Vietnam years.

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