The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 30m

Rated

18

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy industrialist loosely based on Howard Hughes navigates business, fame, and relationships. A former gunslinger turned actor also features in this story set in early Hollywood and aviation circles.

fast-pacedsensualambitiousdramatictenseboldprovocativesweeping

What happens

The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the best-selling 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and Alan Ladd in his last role as Nevada Smith, a former Western gunslinger turned actor. The supporting cast features Carroll Baker as a character loosely based on Jean Harlow as well as Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Ralph Taeger, Leif Erickson, Archie Moore and Tom Tully. The film is a landmark of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, venturing further than most films of the period with its heated sexual embraces, innuendo, and sadism between men and women, much like the novel, where author Dawn Sova asserts "there is sex and/or sadism every 17 pages". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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