Slaughterhouse-five (1972)

Film details

Featuring

Michael Sacks Ron Leibman Eugene Roche
Country

USA
Year

1972
Genres

Comedy Science Fiction War
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

Slaughterhouse-5 Alternative

Synopsis

Billy Pilgrim, an optician, loses interest in helping people to see physically and begins to try to make them see according to his own light. His mind flashes from recollections of the bombing of Dresden to contemporary life in America and the imagined planet, Tralfamadore.

All music by Johann Sebastian Bach including Keyboard Concertos 3 & 5, Goldberg Variations 18 & 25, Brandenburg Concerto No.4 etc.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Billy Pilgrim
    
    Michael Sacks
  - Paul Lazzaro
    
    Ron Leibman
  - Edgar Derby
    
    Eugene Roche
  - Valencia Merble
    
    Sharon Gans
  - Montana Wildhack
    
    Valerie Perrine
  - Wild Bill Cody
    
    Roberts Blossom
  - Lionel Merble
    
    Sorrell Booke
  - Roland Weary
    
    Kevin Conway
  - Stanley
    
    Gary Waynesmith
  - Rumford
    
    John Dehner
  - Hobo
    
    Stan Gottlieb
  - Robert
    
    Perry King
  - German Leader
    
    Friedrich Ledebur
  - Young German Guard
    
    Nick Belle
  - Eliot Rosewater
    
    Henry Bumstead
  - Billy's Mother
    
    Lucille Benson
  - Lily
    
    Gilmer McCormick
  - Barbara
    
    Holly Near
  - Howard Campbell Jnr
    
    Richard Schaal
  - German Guard, Group 2
    
    Karl Otto Alberty
  - Englishman
    
    Tom Wood
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    George Roy Hill
  - Production Company
    
    Universal Pictures
  - Production Company
    
    Vanadas Productions
  - Executive Producer
    
    Jennings Lang
  - Producer
    
    Paul Monash
  - Production Manager
    
    Lloyd Anderson
  - Production Manager
    
    Ernest B. Wehmeyer
  - Assistant Director
    
    Ray Gosnell
  - Casting
    
    Marion Dougherty
  - Screenplay
    
    Stephen Geller
  - Original novel
    
    Kurt Vonnegut
  - Director of Photography
    
    Miroslav Ondrícek
  - Editor
    
    Dede Allen
  - Production Designer
    
    Henry Bumstead
  - Art Director
    
    Alexander Golitzen
  - Art Director
    
    George Webb
  - Set Decorator
    
    John McCarthy
  - Titles
    
    Universal Title
  - Music
    
    Johann Sebastian Bach
  - Music
    
    Glenn Gould
  - Sound Recording
    
    Milan R. Novotny
  - Sound Recording
    
    James Alexander
  - Sound Re-recording
    
    Dick J. Vorisek

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