Ragtime
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
1981 · 2h 35m · PG
Drama, History
Directed by
Miloš Forman
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Miloš Forman Director
- James Cagney as 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 Delphin
- Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
- James Olson as Father
- Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
- Howard Rollins Cast
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