Ragtime (1981)

Name: Ragtime
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1981-11-20
Duration: 155 min
Cast: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan

The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

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Released 1981-11-20 · 155 min · Drama, History

Directed by Miloš Forman

Cast

James Cagney as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
Kenneth McMillan as Willie Conklin
Pat O'Brien as Delmas
Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
James Olson as Father
Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
Howard Rollins as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Mary Steenburgen as Mother
Debbie Allen as Sarah
Jeffrey DeMunn as Harry Houdini
Robert Joy as Henry Thaw
Norman Mailer as Stanford White