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Release Date:
9 April 1964 (USA)
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Plot:
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable rich young tycoon on the corporate make, with some subplots about booze, broads and Hollywood in the 1930's. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 4 wins
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1 nomination
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Hitchcock Screenwriter John Michael Hayes Dead At Age 89
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A pattern for JR and co.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Peppard | ... | Jonas Cord |
 | Alan Ladd | ... | Nevada Smith |
 | Robert Cummings | ... | Dan Pierce (as Bob Cummings) |
 | Martha Hyer | ... | Jennie Denton |
| Elizabeth Ashley | ... | Monica Winthrop |
| Lew Ayres | ... | 'Mac' McAllister |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Bernard B. Norman |
| Ralph Taeger | ... | Buzz Dalton |
| Archie Moore | ... | Jedediah |
| Leif Erickson | ... | Jonas Cord Sr. |
 | Carroll Baker | ... | Rina Marlowe Cord |
| Arthur Franz | ... | Morrissey |
| Tom Tully | ... | Amos Winthrop |
| Audrey Totter | ... | Prostitute |
 | Anthony Warde | ... | Moroni |
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150 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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Mono (35 mm optical prints) (Westrex Recording System) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System) |
Mono (35 mm optical prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
West Germany:12 (re-rated) |
West Germany:18 (original rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:17 (censored version) |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG (re-rating) (1972) |
USA:Approved (original rating)
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Paramount's highest-grossing film of 1964.
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Continuity: When Jonus and Monica are touring the house, they walk into the master bedroom and she says, "adult playroom". Then the walk into the guest room supposedly, but you can tell it is the same door from a different angle, as the three thermostats are on the same side.
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Quotes:
Jonas Cord:
What's the wildest thing you've ever done?
Monica Winthrop: I hope I haven't done it yet.
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Monica Winthrop: I hope I haven't done it yet.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "What's My Line?: (1964-06-28)" (1964)
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The wealthy family saga has always been an audience's favorite:think "giant" (1956) or "written on the wind"(same year) or "home from the hill"(1960,which featured George Peppard too).The genre became essentially a TV show afterwards,the likes of "Dallas" and "Dynasty".Today,it has almost died down.
"The carpetbaggers" is very unlikely story of a tycoon who pushes the others out of his way and whose heart of stone nobody can break.Add the de rigueur childhood trauma -which,as anyone past infancy should know,explains everything!Around him , a bevy of beautiful women :Caroll Baker,as his attractive mother-in-law(!)Martha Hyer as a would be actress,and Elizabeth Ashley as his deceived wife .Alan Ladd plays a movie star down on his luck ,because of the coming of the talkies.It's his swansong and his last scene with Peppard is impressive.So impressive we could do without the implausible mushy epilogue which follows.
George Peppard is extremely good and it's his performance that saves the movie from tediousness.As for Edward Dmytryk,his best works("the Caine mutiny" "the young lions") were behind him and what came next would be disastrous(notably the western "Shalako" with Brigitte Bardot and Sean Connery)