Rent The Last Tycoon (1976)
3.1 of 5 from 78 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood in breathtaking brought to the screen by director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerful cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past.
- Actors:
- Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Dana Andrews, Ingrid Boulting, Peter Strauss, Theresa Russell, Tige Andrews, Morgan Farley, John Carradine, Jeff Corey
- Directors:
- Elia Kazan
- Writers:
- Harold Pinter, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Others:
- Gene Callahan, Jack Collis, Jerry Wunderlich
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Drama
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Reviews (2) of The Last Tycoon
Appallingly Bad - The Last Tycoon review by MCG
This is a truly terrible film and a stain on the glittering career of a great director. De Niro acts as if he is made entirely of plywood and Pinter's script is one of the worst ever committed to celluloid. It is as if a great Hollywood director was suddenly unsure of his talents, had seen all the fuss they were making of Bergman and hired a man who wrote more pauses than words to craft a non-story out of the unfinished Fitzgerald novel. One of those puzzling instances where so many great talents combine to make something truly abysmal.
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Not faithful to the book - The Last Tycoon review by TB
As a big fan of the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald I was keen to see this movie. It had an all-star cast and a veteran Hollywood director so what was there not to like? The story. It dramatically veers away from the book. Mr Starr is not shown to be besotted with his dead wife, not enough by my judgement, and the film has a happy-ish tinseltown ending. The book is darker and more powerful, even though it is incomplete due to the author's premature death. The notes at the end of the book are spine-tingling. Another Fitzgerald adaptation, another disappointment I'm afraid. And don't get me going on the travesty that is Baz Lurman's Great Gatsby.
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