The Grasshopper ( The Passing of Evil ) ( Passions (Grass hopper) )

The Grasshopper (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Passing of Evil
Alternate Title: Passions (Grass hopper)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jerry Paris

Written By:
Mark McShane
Jerry Belson

Actors:
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Christine Adams
Jim Brown ..... Tommy Marcott
Joseph Cotten ..... Richard Morgan
Corbett Monica ..... Danny Raymond
Christopher Stone ..... Jay Rigney
Ramon Bieri ..... Roosevelt Dekker
Ed Flanders ..... Jack Benton
William Callaway ..... Elroy
Roger Garrett ..... Buck Brown
Therese Baldwin ..... Gigi
William Bassett ..... Aaron
Kathalynn Turner ..... Ann Marie Dekker
Stefanianna Christopherson ..... Libby
Marc Hannibal ..... Marion Walters
David Ketchum ..... Football Conventioner

Synopsis:

Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is the young bank teller who is bored with her job and her husband. She leaves for Las Vegas where she scores a job as a chorus girl. The beautiful Christine does not have the talent to parlay the job into an upwardly mobile career. She marries an older man and becomes a "kept woman." Tommy Marcott (Jim Brown) is the greeter at a casino who poses for pictures with the guests and marries Christine. When Christine is invited to dinner by Roosevelt Dekker (Ramon Bieri), she is beaten up by her host. Tommy tracks down the construction magnate at a local golf course and beats him to a pulp. Danny (Corbett Monica) is the comic who gives Christine her first tour of Vegas and his bedroom. Christine hires a pilot to skywrite an obscenity that sums up her feelings about her experience. Joseph Cotten also appears in this drama of a naive young woman nearly swallowed up by the seamier side of the Las Vegas nightlife.

Christine Adams, at 19, leaves her small town in British Columbia to follow her boy-friend to L.A., where he works for a bank, to live with him and have babies. He's not keen on a baby right away, so she gets bored and heads for Las Vegas where she talks her way into a job as a show girl. Friendships sustain her in this day-by-day life, and one of those friendships, with NFL great Tommy Marcott who's now the glorified greeter at a casino, blossoms into a marriage. Tommy loses his job after beating a man who assaults Chris, so they head for L.A. There tragedy strikes, and there's no place left for her but Vegas and prostitution. Are redemption and fulfillment possible on the Strip?

A young woman is caught up in the whirlwind round-the-clock life in Las Vegas.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 December, 2010.

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