| Cradle Will Rock | |
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| Directed by | Tim Robbins |
| Written by | Tim Robbins |
| Based on | Events surrounding The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jean Yves Escoffier |
| Edited by | Geraldine Peroni |
| Music by | David Robbins |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Italian |
| Budget | $36 million[1] |
| Box office | $2.9 million[1] |
Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins. The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s, particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals, artists and working-class people in the same period.
The film is not based on Orson Welles's unproduced screenplay for The Cradle Will Rock, an autobiographical drama about the production of Blitzstein's musical. Written in 1984, a year before Welles's death, the script was published in 1994; the film has not been produced.[2]
- ^ a b "Cradle Will Rock (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (June 17, 1994). "Afterword to The Cradle Will Rock, a screenplay by Orson Welles". jonathanrosenbaum.net. Retrieved February 12, 2023.