


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.

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
Warren Beatty
Trevor Griffiths, Warren Beatty
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