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Based on
  
novel by Mark McShane

Initial release
  
27 May 1970 (USA)

Music director
  
6/10
IMDb

Directed by
  
Music by
  
Billy Goldenberg

Director
  
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Written by
  
Jerry BelsonGarry Marshall

Starring
  
Jacqueline BissetJim BrownJoseph Cotten

Distributed by
  
Box office
  
2 million USD (US/ Canada rentals)

Cast
  
Similar
  
Jacqueline Bisset movies, Dramas

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The Grasshopper is a 1970 drama film directed by Jerry Paris. It stars Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, and Joseph Cotten.

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Plot

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Christine Adams (Jacqueline Bisset), a cheerful 19-year-old from British Columbia, Canada, travels to Los Angeles to be with her fiance, who works there in a bank. When the relationship doesn't work out, she moves to Las Vegas.

She finds work as a showgirl and meets Tommy Marcott (Jim Brown), an African-American former pro football player who holds an executive position at the casino, though in truth he is only used as a "celebrity greeter." They fall in love and get married, but when Tommy gives a vicious beating on a golf course to a wealthy casino patron who had beaten and raped Christine, he is fired.

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They flee Vegas, discussing the possibility that the casino patron will seek revenge, and return to Los Angeles hoping for a normal life; but Tommy is shot by an unknown assailant on a basketball court, likely the anticipated act of revenge. Christine returns to Las Vegas to work as a V.I.P. "party girl' until she is persuaded by wealthy client Morgan to return to Los Angeles to be kept as his mistress.

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But Morgan is too busy to keep Christine interested in her new life, so she renews a relationship with rocker Jay Rigney, who soon has her turning tricks. The instance we witness involves a tubby older man and a cheap-looking motel room.

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When Jay runs out on her, Christine drives to a rural airstrip where she promises airfield bum Elroy "some fun" with her to take her up in a plane. Elroy selects a skywriting plane, and offers to write her name in the sky. Christine breaks out a marijuana joint, which they share as Elroy writes "FUCK IT" across the sky of L.A.

Cast

  • Jacqueline Bisset as Christine Adams
  • Jim Brown as Tommy Marcott
  • Joseph Cotten as Richard Morgan
  • Corbett Monica as Danny Raymond
  • Christopher Stone as Jay Rigney
  • Ramon Bieri as Roosevelt Dekker
  • Ed Flanders as Jack Benton
  • William Callaway as Elroy
  • Roger Garrett as Buck Brown
  • William Bassett as Aaron
  • Marc Hannibal as Marion Walters
  • DVD

    The Grasshopper was released March 23, 2009 on DVD by Warner Bros. via the Warner Archive DVD-on-demand service.

    References

    The Grasshopper (1970 film) Wikipedia