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The Grasshopper

 
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The Grasshopper

 
  • Director: Jerry Paris
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Coming-of-Age, Melodrama
  • Themes: Innocence Lost
  • Main Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett Monica, Ramon Bieri
  • Release Year: 1969
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

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. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Cast

Christopher Stone - Jay Rigney; Roger Garrett - Buck; Stanley Adams - Buddy Miller; Dick Richards - Lou Bellman; Tim O'Kelly - Eddie Molina; Stefanianna Christopherson - Libby; Sandi Gaviola - Kyo; Eris Sandy - Vicky; Jay Laskay - Manny; Therese Baldwin - Gigi; Chris Wong - Billy; Kathalyn Turner - Ann Marie; John Aprea - The Ice Pack; William H. Bassett - Aaron; Ed Flanders - Jack Bishop; Marc Hannibal - Marion Walters; Dave Ketchum - Football Conventioner; Jessica Myerson - Wedding Chapel Owner; Tom Nolan - Vic; Penny Marshall - Plaster Caster; Jim Smith - Larry

Credit

Tambi Larsen - Art Director, Fred Roos - Casting, Donfeld - Costume Designer, Jerry Paris - Director, Aaron Stell - Editor, Billy Goldenberg - Composer (Music Score), Gus Norin - Makeup, Sam Leavitt - Cinematographer, Jerry Belson - Producer, Garry Marshall - Producer, Don Sullivan - Set Designer, O. Thol Simonson - Special Effects, John R. Carter - Sound/Sound Designer, Jerry Belson - Screenwriter, Garry Marshall - Screenwriter, Mark McShane - Book Author

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