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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) 7.0
A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens. Director:George Roy Hill |
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Edgar Derby
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Valencia Merble Pilgrim
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Barbara Pilgrim
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Robert Pilgrim
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Roland Weary
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Friedrich von Ledebur | ... |
German Leader
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Young German Guard
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Lionel Merble
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Wild Bob Cody
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Prof. Rumfoord
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Stanley
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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 assistant chaplain for his squad. 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 teenaged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the... Written by Huggo
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Country:
USARelease Date:
15 March 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Matadero cinco See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,200,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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[murmurs throughout the crowd]
Billy Pilgrim: If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you've not understood what I have said.
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Written by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Glenn Gould, Piano
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The aircraft used in the movie was owned by the 3M Company See more »Goofs
When Billy Pilgrim is asked by the American soldiers, "Where's your rifle?", he replies that he doesn't have one because he's a chaplain's assistant. However, in the United States Army, the primary duty of the chaplain's assistant, when in a combat zone, is to protect the chaplain, so all chaplain's assistants must carry rifles. See more »Quotes
Billy Pilgrim: [giving speech] You see in Tralfamador, where I presently dwell, life has no beginning, no middle, and no end. For example, many years ago a certain man promised to have me killed. He's an old man now, living not far from here. He's read all of the publicity associated with my appearance. He's insane. And tonight he'll keep his promise.[murmurs throughout the crowd]
Billy Pilgrim: If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you've not understood what I have said.
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Soundtracks
Goldberg variations, BWV 988 - Variation No. 18 a 1 Clav. Canone alla SestaWritten by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Glenn Gould, Piano
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There is a definite 70s feel to this production of a book that does an amazing job of spanning the most fascinating period of American history -- 1945-1970. I first saw this film in 1986 as a late teen at the height of Regan America, the cold war, nuclear detente. Billy Pilgram was the beginning of that world that I was just starting to pay attention to. The movie had a really profound effect on me at the time. Reading the book afterwards and getting into his other books, didn't detract at all from my assessment of the movie adaptation. Even seeing it now many years later doesn't detract from an amazingly solid film. The transitions as Billy gets unstuck in time are some of my favorite movie images. Also beautiful is the music which totally turned me on to Glenn Gould.