Reds poster
Director Warren Beatty
Screenplay Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

Reds

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

Release Date: 1981-12-25

Duration: 195 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jack Nicholson
    Eugene O'Neill
  • Diane Keaton
    Louise Bryant
  • Gene Hackman
    Pete van Wherry
  • Edward Herrmann
    Max Eastman
  • Miriam Margolyes
    Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
  • William Daniels
    Julius Gerber
  • Warren Beatty
    John Reed
  • John Ratzenberger
    Communist Leader (uncredited)
  • Paul Sorvino
    Louis Fraina
  • R.G. Armstrong
    Government Agent