Ragtime / ラグタイム（1981）
Brad Dourif as Younger Brother/ヤンガー・ブラザー
(日本劇場公開：1983年1月）
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Ragtime Press Kit
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Program 40頁
THE CAST(CREDITS) P2~3
TECHNICAL CREDITS P4~7
THE STORY P8~9
BACKGROUND NOTES P10~11
THE CAST(BIO) P12~29
P30~40 STAFF BIO等
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The Cast(Bio)
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Director Milos Forman (left) directs actors Brad Dourif, Elizabeth McGovern
and bearded Mandy Pathinkin in Paramount Pictures' "Ragtime."
Dino De laurentiis was the producer of the Sunley Production with a screenplay
by Michael Weller from the novel by E.L. doctorow. The executive producers
were Michael Hausman and Bernard williams.
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Brad Dourif stars as Younger Brother, whose promising career changes dramatically
when he becomes infatuated with the legendary society beauty Evelyn Nesbit
in Paramount Pictures' "Ragtime."
"RAGTIME"
THE STORY
(Not for publication)
America 1906. A world in transition. New fangled automobiles are frightening
the horses, entertainment has taken on a different dimension with the birth
of the nickelodeon. when in next to no time, a poor sidewalk peddler of
silhouettes (MANDY PATINKIN) can parlay his simple talent into a successful
career as a silent movie director. Teddy Roosevelt (BOB BOYD) sits securely
in the Oval Office. A time of mass immigration from Europe, Gibson Girls
and the beaux arts. A vivid and hight energy human tableau of passion and
pity, young love, fierce pride, comedy and tragedy. With ragtime music
its unmistakable voice, and New York City the heartbeat.
Keeping the gossips busy is the most talked-about scandale a trois
of the day. In front of a packed house, insanely jealous Pittsburgh millionaire
playboy harry K. Thaw (ROBERT JOY) guns down his young wife's former lover,
the celebrated architect Stanford White (NORMAN MAILER), in the rooftop
theatre of Madison Square Garden on the first night of the bubbling musical
comedy "Mamzelle Champagne."
Before the inevitable murder hearing, Harry Thaw's mother (ELOISE O'BRIEN)
and the wily family lawyer Delphin Delmas (PAT O'BRIEN) offer a million
dollar bribe for Evelyn Nesbit (ELIZABETH McGOVERN) to testify in her son's
favor, then divorce him the moment the trial is over. There is no intention
of paying up. Mrs. Thaw simply awaits her chance to prove Evelyn an opportunist
and adultress, and it is not long before hired detectives catch her in
flagrante delicto with the sensitive Younger Brother (BRAD DOURIF) from
New Rochelle.
The infatuated fellow's intentions are honorable enough. A chance
to introduce her to his bourgeois family, withe the manly notion of marriage
and living happily ever after. An empty dream. Evelyn Nesbit has a vision,
which does not include a long-term future with a middle class fireworks
manufacturer.
Younger Brother's despair is momentarily obscured by a bizarre event in the family. An abandoned newly born black baby is literally unearthed from their vegetable patch. His young mother Sarah (DEBBIE ALLEN) is winkled out of hiding nearby, and the family, in an act of Christian charity, decides to shelter the unfortunate pair. Father (JAMES OLSON) has reservations, but Mother's (MARY STEENBURGEN) influence prevails. Before long this generosity is to become a nightmare.
The penitent father, a footloose piano player named Coalhouse Walker
(HOWARD ROLLINS) shows up unexpectedly at the house in New Rochelle. At
last he has a permanent job and can provide for his common-law. Before
this is resolved, a group of brutish firemen, led on by bigoted fire chief
Willie Conklin (KENNETH McMILLAN) , play a humiliating trick on Coalhouse
Walker. Conklin, a poor Irish immigrant, envies this well-spoken, elegantly
dressed black man, who is successful enough to own and drive a Model T
Ford. Conklin and his cronies vandalize the immaculate vehicle in hideous
fashion.
Coalhouse, a proud and implacable man, tries every legal means
to bring Conklin and his cohorts to court, only to discover that America
is still very much white man's country. To compound the tragedy, his fiancee
Sarah is cruelly murdered in a naive attempt to intervene with Vice-President
Charles Fairbanks (TOM CARLIN) during a heavily policed political whistle
stop tour.
Coalhouse. at the end of his tether, recruits several other disaffected
black men (FRANKIE FAISON, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, CALVIN LEVELS, DORSEY WRIGHT)
who also dream of justice and racial equality. They systematically destroy
a chain of firehouses with the demand that Chief Conklin be turned over
to them for summary justice.
Ad these events escalate, the family is forced to flee New Rochelle for Atlantic City to protect the motherless black baby against growing pressure from their white neighbors, the murdered firemen's dependents, the press and the law. Meanwhile, Coalhouse's gang, in a last ditch effort to take the initiative, occupy the famous J. P. Morgan Library, housing America's most treasured collection of art works, threatening to blow it apart if Conklin is not surrendered. They have been joined by an explosives expert, the mysterious Younger Brother, whose unrequited passion for Evelyn Nesbit has turned to a longing for more violent release.
In a dramatic final sequence, the Father of the New Rochelle family
returns to New York city to help Police Commissioner Rheinlander Waldo
(JAMES CAGNEY), only to find himself held hostage by Coalhouse Walker in
the beleaguered library. After many hours of standoff between police and
the black urban revolutionaries, Coalhouse is killed, his gang scattered
to the wind, the once closeknit New Rochelle family torn asunder. And the
age of American innocence, wealth and ragtime music ends forever.
"RAGTIME"
THE CAST
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Younger Brother's growing infatuation with society beauty Evelyn Nesbit
catapults this junior partner in a firework manufacturing company into
perhaps the greatest scandal of early 20th century America.
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One of the most memorable film performances of the 1970's was given by a shy New York-based actor named BRAD DOURIF in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." As the stuttering Billy Bibbit, the doomed inmate of a mental hospital who becomes the pawn in a dramatic power play between fellow inmate Jack Nicholson and ward nurse Louise Fletcher, Dourif received an Academy Award nomination, won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and British Oscar as well.
The name Dourif has Moorish roots and is well over a thousand years
old, Brad's grandfather having personally traced the family back five centuries.
One of six children from Huntington, West Virginia, Dourif's father is
a lawyer and his mother appeared in community theatre productions in the
area. Brad describes himself as a "vague youth, rather a dreamer,"
attending no less than 13 preparatory schools dotted around the countryside.
In his mid-teens, he sharpened his interest in the stage by spending a
summer as an apprentice withe the Green Briar Repertory Company.
By the age of 19, Dourif had gravitated to New York, studying with
Sanford Meisner, James Tuttle, Marshall Mason and Rob Thirkfield, and spending
three years with the Circle Repertory. He tested his range with regional
theatre productions of "The Taming of the Shrew," "A Lion
in Winter" and " Visit to a Small Planet."
New York audiences became familiar with him as Stephen in the prize-winning
off-Broadway hit "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" He has also
appeared with the Circle Repertory in productions as diverse as "Time
Shadows," "Future in the Eggs," "The Three Sisters,"
"DOCTOR in Spite of Himself" and "Ghost Sonata."
Dourif has also appeared in the motion pictures "W.W. and
the Dixie Dance Kings," "Eyes of Laura Mars" and in "Heaven's
Gate" as the President of the Chamber of Commerce who takes on the
Cattleman's Association. In "Ragtime" he stars as the withdrawn
Younger Brother from New Rochelle who donates his services as an explosives
expert to a group of dissident blacks occupying the J.P. Morgan Library,
threatening to blow its priceless artifacts to pieces unless they receive
equal justice under the white man's law.
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