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George Roy Hill

Slaughterhouse-Five

Edition 1986
104' - 1972 - Drama, Comedy - Dialogue: German, Russian, English
Director: George Roy Hill Composer: Glenn Gould With: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain's assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack - who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career - the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.

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Credits

Director

George Roy Hill

Composer

Glenn Gould

With

Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche

Scenario

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stephen Geller

Director of Photography

Miroslav Ondrícek

Editor

Dede Allen

Producer

Paul Monash

More information

Dialogue

German, Russian, English

Countries of production

United States of America

Screenplay based on

"Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

Year

1972

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