

Reds(1981)
"Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!"
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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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Warren Beatty
John Reed

Diane Keaton
Louise Bryant

Edward Herrmann
Max Eastman

Jerzy Kosiński
Grigory Zinoviev

Jack Nicholson
Eugene O'Neill

Paul Sorvino
Louis Fraina

Maureen Stapleton
Emma Goldman

Nicolas Coster
Paul Trullinger

M. Emmet Walsh
Speaker at Liberal Club

Ian Wolfe
Mr. Partlow

Bessie Love
Mrs. Partlow

MacIntyre Dixon
Carl Walters

Pat Starr
Helen Walters
Eleanor D. Wilson
Mrs. Reed

Max Wright
Floyd Dell

George Plimpton
Horace Whigham

Harry Ditson
Maurice Becker
Leigh Curran
Ida Rauh

Kathryn Grody
Crystal Eastman

Brenda Currin
Marjorie Jones
Nancy Duiguid
Jane Heap

Norman Chancer
Barney

Dolph Sweet
Big Bill Haywood

Ramon Bieri
Police Chief
Jack O'Leary
Pinkerton Guard

Gene Hackman
Pete van Wherry
Gerald Hiken
Dr. Lorber

William Daniels
Julius Gerber

Dave King
Allan Benson

Joseph Buloff
Joe Volski

Stefan Gryff
Alex Gomberg
Denis Pekarev
Interpreter in Factory

Roger Sloman
Vladimir I. Lenin
Stuart Richman
Leon Trotsky
Oleg Kerensky
Alexander Kerensky / Himself - Witness
Nikko Seppala
Young Bolshevik Soldier
John J. Hooker
Senator Overman

Shane Rimmer
MacAlpine

Jerry Hardin
Harry

Jack Kehoe
Eddie

Christopher Malcolm
CLP Party Member #1
Tony Sibbald
CLP Party Member #2

R.G. Armstrong
Government Agent

Josef Sommer
State Department Official

Jan Tříska
Karl Radek

Åke Lindman
Scandinavian Escort
Pertti Weckström
Finnish Doctor
Nina Macarova
Russian Nurse
Jose De Fillippo
Russian Doctor
Andreas La Casa
Little Boy

Roger Baldwin
Himself - Witness

Henry Miller
Himself - Witness
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Herself - Witness
Dora Russell
Herself - Witness
Scott Nearing
Himself - Witness
Tess Davis
Herself - Witness
Heaton Vorse
Herself - Witness
Hamilton Fish
Himself - Witness
Isaac Don Levine
Himself - Witness
Rebecca West
Herself - Witness
Will Durant
Himself - Witness
Will Weinstone
Himself - Witness
Emmanuel Herbert
Himself - Witness
Arne Swabeck
Himself - Witness
Adele Gutman Nathan
Herself - Witness
George Seldes
Himself - Witness
Kenneth Chamberlain
Himself - Witness
Blanche Hays Fagen
Herself - Witness
Galina von Meck
Herself - Witness
Art Shields
Himself - Witness
Andrew Dasburg
Himself - Witness
Hugo Gellert
Himself - Witness
Dorothy Frooks
Herself - Witness

George Jessel
Himself - Witness
Jacob Bailin
Himself - Witness
John Ballato
Himself - Witness
Lucita Williams
Herself - Witness
Bernadine Szold-Fritz
Herself - Witness
Jessica Smith
Herself - Witness
Harry Carlisle
Himself - Witness
Arthur Mayer
Himself - Witness

Miriam Margolyes
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

John Ratzenberger
Communist Leader (uncredited)

Simon Jones
Louise Bryant's Colleague in France (uncredited)

Jill Goldston
Dancing Woman (uncredited)
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