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The Carpetbaggers is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edward Dmytryk released in USA on 8 april 1964 with George Peppard

The Carpetbaggers (1964)

The Carpetbaggers
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Released in USA 8 april 1964
Length 2h30
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama
Rating64% 3.2449853.2449853.2449853.2449853.244985

The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the best-selling novel of the same name by Harold Robbins, and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and (in his last role) Alan Ladd as Nevada Smith, a former western gunslinger turned actor. Carroll Baker, Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings and Elizabeth Ashley also star.

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 "there is sex and/or sadism every 17 pages".

Filmed in 35mm Panavision, this was one of the first movies to be blown up to 70mm ("Panavision 70") for premiere screening. Ladd died unexpectedly at age 50 months before its release. Dmytryk the same year directed Where Love Has Gone (1964), also based on a Robbins novel.

The Carpetbaggers was released in April 1964, after the unexpected death of Ladd in late January at age 50. Two years after this film, Steve McQueen played Ladd's character in a Western prequel entitled Nevada Smith.

Synopsis

Jonas Cord becomes one of America's richest men, inheriting an explosives company from his late father. Cord resents his father bitterly and is psychologically scarred by the death of a twin brother. Believing his family has insanity in its blood, he does not want children of his own.

Actors

George Peppard

(Jonas Cord Junior)Alan Ladd

(Nevada Smith)Carroll Baker

(Rina Marlowe Cord)Vaughn Taylor

(Doctor)Robert Cummings

(Dan Pierce)
And :
Martha Hyer
Lew Ayres
Elizabeth Ashley
Martin Balsam
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