A man named Billy Pilgirm tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.
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Valencia Merble Pilgrim
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Barbara Pilgrim
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Robert Pilgrim
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Friedrich von Ledebur | ... |
German Leader
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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 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... Written by Huggo
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Billy Pilgrim lives - from time to time to time... See more »Certificate:
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15 March 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Beit mitbahayim hamesh See more »Box Office
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$3,200,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Written by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Rudolf Serkin, Harpsichord
Alexander Schneider, Violin
Marlboro Festival Orchestra
Pau Casals (as Pablo Casals), Conductor
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The music of the movie that the Pilgrim family watches in the drive-in is Rimksy-Korsakov's Sheherazade. See more »Goofs
At the beginning when Billy Pilgrim is typing in the house, the letter "A" in the word "what's" did not fully get typed onto the paper, but when it shows him typing the next line, the letter "A" is fully inked in without any trace of error correction. See more »Quotes
Paul Lazzaro: That corporal. He'll get back home after the war. He'll be a big hero. Dames'll be climbin' all over him. Couple of years go by, and one day there's gonna be a knock on his door and there'll be this stranger. "Paul Lazzaro sent me," the stranger will say and then he'll pull out a gun and shoot his pecker off. Stranger will give him a couple of seconds to think about who Paul Lazzaro is and what life's gonna be like without a pecker. Then he'll shoot him once in the guts and walk away. Yes.See more »
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Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G major, BWV 1049 - 3rd movement 'Presto'Written by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Rudolf Serkin, Harpsichord
Alexander Schneider, Violin
Marlboro Festival Orchestra
Pau Casals (as Pablo Casals), Conductor
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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.