The first half is quite enjoyable and I loved the music. If you think this movie is a giant downer, you are right. His final years were A LOT worse than they show in the movie and his decline lasted far longer-but regardless, he died young in a mental institution-committed due to his dementia. But because of his syphilis (which was pretty much untreatable at that time) his career and marriage slowly spiraled downward. For a while, things look great-Joplin marries and he achieves moderate success.
Soon he meets and befriends Louis Chauvin (Clifton David) and they come to the attention of a music publisher/promoter (Art Carney). The film picks up with Joplin an adult and playing music in brothels. A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Both the movie and musical play focus on the Coalhouse Walker story, but touch on other prominent characters of the early 20th Century. Synopsis The story runs in the 1910's New York. As the father, Olson is very good, too, but Brad Dourif as the brother is not as convincing.
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However, the film DID find an audience and won a Writer's Guild award. Watch Ragtime 1981 Full Movie Online Free. It's also unusual for its choice of Joplin as a subject for the film because the guy died from syphilis (something folks RARELY talked about in 1977) and his later years were spent deteriorating more and more-a tough sort of film to put over to the viewing audience. It stars Billy Dee Williams as the famed composer. "Scott Joplin" is an unusual made for TV film in that it was, briefly, released in theaters just before it aired on TV.
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