WUSA (1970)

Director:

Stuart Rosenberg

Writers:

Robert Stone (novel)
Robert Stone (screenplay)

Release Date:

12 March 1971 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Love it or leave it

Plot:

A radio station in the Deep South becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy.

Plot Keywords:

Radio Station | Drifter | Assassination Attempt | New Orleans Louisiana | Social Worker

Cast

Paul Newman	...	Rheinhardt
Joanne Woodward	...	Geraldine
Anthony Perkins	...	Rainey
Laurence Harvey	...	Farley
Pat Hingle	...	Bingamon
Cloris Leachman	...	Philomene
Michael Anderson Jr.	...	Marvin
Jesse Vint	...	Young Doctor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kristin Andersen	...	Playboy Bunny
Susan Batson	...	Teenaged Girl
Hal Baylor	...	Shorty
Lucille Benson	...	Matron
Jim Boles	...	Hot Dog Vendor
Bruce Cabot	...	King Wolyoe
Jerry Catron	...	Sidewinder Bates
Zara Cully	...	White-Haired Woman
Geoffrey Edwards	...	Irving
Leigh French	...	Girl
Don Gordon	...	Bogdanovich
Moses Gunn	...	Clotho
Paul Hampton	...	Rusty Fargo
David Huddleston	...	Heavy Man
Clifton James	...	Speed
Diane Ladd	...	Barmaid at Railroad Station
B.J. Mason	...	Roosevelt Berry
Robert Quarry	...	Noonan
Wayne Rogers	...	Calvin Minter
Laird Stuart	...	Bobby
Geraldine West	...	Matron
Gwen Wong
Skip Young	...	Jimmy Snipe

Also Known As:

Hall of Mirrors (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:AA | Sweden:15 | USA:GP

Filming Locations:

Louisiana, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

The famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans appears in the film. Preservation Hall on St. Peter Street has been a venue for New Orleans jazz since 1961.

Quotes:

Rheinhardt: [at the microphone, supposedly trying to calm a panicked crowd] Fellow Americans. Fellow Americans. Let us consider the American way. The American way... is innocence. In each and every situation we must display an innocence that is so vast and awesome that the entire world is reduced by it. When our boys drop a napalm bomb on a cluster of gibbering slants...
[...]

Soundtrack:

Glory Road

An important film of the seventies

When I first saw this movie in 1971, it impressed me, and my friends, very much. I saw it at least 4 or 5 times. This is one of the most important films of the '70, a political fiction of its time... but in a revision a few days ago in VHS, a film that seems as new as before, very actual. Although I think that Rosenberg was not the most indicate director for this film (Frankenheimer seems to me a most appropriate election, due to his asphyxiating atmospheres), the strong of the story and the interpretation of an extraordinary Anthony Perkins, among the others actors, gives its force to the movie. It is a pity that there are no DVD edition (I suspect that the Spanish exhibition in its time was very censured...) for to see that film in good conditions. The people that doesn't know are missing a very notable film. I liked so much that in my blog I have written a long essay about the film, for the benefit of the young people that doesn't know it.