The Last Tycoon (film)
| The Last Tycoon | |
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 film poster by Richard Amsel |
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| Directed by | Elia Kazan |
| Produced by | Sam Spiegel |
| Written by | Harold Pinter |
| Starring | Robert De Niro Tony Curtis Robert Mitchum Jack Nicholson Donald Pleasence Jeanne Moreau |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
| Editing by | Richard Marks |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1976 |
| Running time | 123 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Last Tycoon (1976), is a film based upon the novel The Last Tycoon (now known as The Love of the Last Tycoon) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, the film starred Robert De Niro as “Monroe Stahr,” Tony Curtis as “Rodriguez,” Robert Mitchum as “Pat Brady,” Jack Nicholson as “Brimmer,” Donald Pleasence as “Boxley”, Jeanne Moreau as “Didi” and Theresa Russell as “Cecilia Brady”. Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter adapted the novel for the screen and it was produced by the iconic Sam Spiegel.
The film was the second collaboration between Kazan and Spiegel who worked closely together to make On the Waterfront. Fittingly, Spiegel was once awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and Fitzgerald based the novel’s protagonist, Monroe Stahr, on producer Irving Thalberg.
The caliber of the film lacked the critical acclaim that much of Elia Kazan’s earlier films reached, but is historically interesting to note that it was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last, unfinished novel as well as the last film Kazan directed.