The Revolutionary (1970)
Directed by Paul Williams
Genres - Action, Adventure, Drama, Culture & Society |
Sub-Genres - Political Drama |
Release Date - Jul 15, 1970 (USA - Unknown), Jul 15, 1970 (USA) |
Run Time - 101 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Dan Pavlides
In this symbolic drama of social and political turmoil, Jon Voight plays an aspiring revolutionary (who is only known as "A") working in a print shop. He lives with his bohemian girlfriend (Collin Wilcox-Horne) and studies philosophy at the local university. Despard (Robert Duvall) is his alleged communist boss who spurns him on to political activity. When a strike turns violent, "A" the print-shop worker is pegged as the one who passed out the leaflets that encouraged the strike. He returns home where he receives his draft notice. His first Army assignment is to forcibly break up the striking workers and he goes AWOL. When Despard denies involvement in the unrest, the disillusioned "A" aligns himself with the radical bomb-maker Leonard II (Seymour Cassel), who is constructing two bombs for a judge who sentenced the striking workers to jail time.
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arrest, assignment, AWOL (Absent Without Leave), battle [war], betrayal, bomb, college, Communism, courtroom, explosion, extremist, factory, factory-worker, faith, group, hidden, ideals, justice, leader, lover, military-draft, organization, policy, politician, radical, revolution, romance, sentence [penal system], service, striker, student, surveillance, worker