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The Carpetbaggers (1964) 6.4
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable rich young tycoon on the corporate make, with some subplots about booze, broads and Hollywood in the 1930's. Director:Edward Dmytryk |
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Cast
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Rina Marlowe Cord
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Dan Pierce
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Jennie Denton
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Monica Winthrop
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'Mac' McAllister
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Buzz Dalton
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Jedediah
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Moroni
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George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures. Written by Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org>
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tycoon | hollywood | airplane | 1930s | ex husband ex wife relationship |Taglines:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
9 April 1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Die Unersättlichen See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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3 Channel Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (5.0) (L-R)Color:
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2.35 : 1
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One of the actresses tested for the lead role was Katharine Ross, who was working in a theater group in San Francisco at the time and was brought down to Los Angeles to test. She didn't get the part, but executives at Universal Pictures saw her test, liked it and signed her to a long-term contract. See more »Goofs
As Dan and Rina Marlowe drive from the train station, circa 1927, there are a couple of 1940s cars parked in driveways in the background. See more »Quotes
Jonas Cord: [referring to a porn film] As for this, I've seen it. Twice. You had good lighting and a bad director.See more »
Harold Robbins' potboiler comes to the screen, trying to be something it isn't. Main character Jonas Cord is supposedly based on Howard Hughes, but George Peppard doesn't really convince in this role. Perhaps you need more than just good looks to be a trash fiction hero. Alan Ladd, in his final role, plays Nevada Smith, older friend of Cord and washed-up movie star – the role was played by Steve McQueen in a later film – and is okay, but again, somehow not quite right. Carroll 'Baby Doll' Baker is Cord's predatory step-mother; Elizabeth Ashley, Leif Erickson, Robert Cummings, Lew Ayres, Audrey Totter and Martha Hyer also contribute.
Perhaps the problem with 'The Carpetbaggers' is that it is never in danger of progressing beyond a simmer and the film really needs more to do the novel justice. This aside, it is fairly enjoyable as a time-filler and has moments enough not to completely disappoint: it also pointed the way for the glossy US soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s.