The Last Tycoon (1976)

Directed by

Elia Kazan

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 164 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s Hollywood, a powerful but lonely film producer struggles with his personal and professional life. The story follows his romantic entanglement and his efforts to maintain control during a changing industry.

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What happens

The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American period romantic drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon. It stars Robert De Niro and features Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell and Ingrid Boulting. The film is the second collaboration between Kazan and Spiegel, who worked together to make On the Waterfront (1954). Fitzgerald based the novel's protagonist Monroe Stahr on film producer Irving Thalberg. Spiegel was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. The Last Tycoon did not receive the critical acclaim that much of Kazan's earlier work had received, but it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Gene Callahan, Jack T. Collis and Jerry Wunderlich). The story was Fitzgerald's last, unfinished novel, as well as the last film that Kazan directed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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