The Last Mogul (2005)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Barry Avrich

Writer:

Barry Avrich (writer)

Release Date:

24 July 2005 (Canada)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Tagline:

Scandal. Power. Corruption. Finally, a true Hollywood story.

Plot:

A biography of powerful Hollywood agent and executive Lew Wasserman. |

Plot Keywords:

TV Special

Cast

Irving Azoff	...	Himself (archive footage)
Lucille Ball	...	Herself (archive footage)
Peter Bart	...	Himself
Norman Brokaw	...	Himself
David Brown	...	Himself
Helen Gurley Brown	...	Herself
David Carr	...	Himself
Johnny Carson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter	...	Himself
Charles Champlin	...	Himself
George Christy	...	Himself
Kaye Coleman	...	Herself
Janet De Cordova	...	Herself
Al Dorskind	...	Himself
Garth H. Drabinsky	...	Himself
Dominick Dunne	...	Himself
Robert Evans	...	Himself
Zsa Zsa Gabor	...	Herself (archive footage)
Leonard Goldberg	...	Himself
Wendy Goldberg	...	Herself
John Grabowski	...	Himself
Merv Griffin	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jay Kanter	...	Himself
Larry King	...	Himself
William Knoedelseder	...	Himself - author
Sid Korshak	...	Himself (archive footage)
Kay Kyser	...	Himself (archive footage)
Alan Ladd Jr.	...	Himself
William Link	...	Himself
Henry Mancini	...	Himself (archive footage)
Walter Matthau	...	Himself (archive footage)
Michael Ovitz	...	Himself
Sal Pisello	...	Himself (archive footage)
Suzanne Pleshette	...	Herself
Sydney Pollack	...	Himself
Frank Price	...	Himself
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Marvin Rudnick	...	Himself (archive footage)
Al Setnick	...	Himself
Kathleen Sharp	...	Herself
Neil Shee	...	Narrator
Violet Spevak	...	Herself
Steven Spielberg	...	Himself (archive footage)
Richard Stavin	...	Himself - US Justice Department
Jules C. Stein	...	Himself (archive footage)
James Stewart	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Sweeney	...	Himself
Jack Valenti	...	Himself
Edie Wasserman	...	Herself
Lew Wasserman	...	Himself
Richard D. Zanuck	...	Himself

Directed by
Barry Avrich

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Barry Avrich		writer

Produced by
Barry Avrich	....	executive producer
Nat Brescia	....	executive producer
Nat Brescia	....	producer
Tori Hockin	....	producer
Brian Linehan	....	co-producer
Natalie Mitrovich	....	assistant producer
Kathleen Sharp	....	consulting producer

Original Music by
Frank Kitching
Jim McGrath

Cinematography by
Charles Haggart

Film Editing by
Alex Shuper

Sound Department
Eric Apps	....	additional sound re-recording mixer
Fred Brennan	....	dialogue and adr editor
Fred Brennan	....	supervising sound editor
Christian T. Cooke	....	sound re-recording mixer
John Loranger	....	sound effects editor
Mark Maloof	....	sound recordist: David and Helen Gurley Brown interviews
David Yonson	....	adr mixer

Visual Effects by
Diane Macke	....	visual effects project manager: EFilm

Music Department
Kevin Banks	....	music editor
Amy Fritz	....	music licensing

Other crew
Barbara Gregson	....	researcher
Natasha Koifman	....	publicist

Production Companies

• Melbar Entertainment Group
• Bravo!

Distributors

• Movie Network, The (TMN)
• THINKFilm (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• Kino Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Velocity Home Entertainment

Special Effects

• Soho VFX

Other Companies

• Crush  titles
• Sim Video  camera equipment provided by

Also Known As:

Lew Wasserman: The Last Mogul (Canada: English title) (working title)
The Last Mogul: Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (USA) (long title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexual references.

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Melbar Entertainment Group

Hollywood insider documentary of both the history of Hollywood and studio giant Lew Wasserman!

CINEPHILE ALERT!!! This film shows without a doubt how Hollywood was born out of mafia management strategies, and it was 'clean' guys like Lew Wasserman who were able to use their brains, guts, and influence to make the entertainment industry legit (so to speak) despite its financial underpinnings.

Lew Wasserman did keep one troubling trait (for researchers) that he picked up from his mob associates, NEVER write anything down. That's right, somehow he ran an entire motion picture empire without writing so much as one memo, it was all kept in his head until the day he died in 2002. However, he also had a legendary temper that won't be soon forgotten by his associates, though it only erupted when things didn't go his way. As legit as appeared, he was still one of those guys who could end a labor problem on a movie set with one phone call (if you know what I mean).

Luckily for the filmmakers, there were still quite a few people that were willing to speak about THE MAN though much of the information in the film comes second-hand because people still fear Wasserman's wrath from the grave.

MUST-SEE viewing if it comes your way, and remember that Robert Evans was just a blip on the Hollywood radar compared to Lew Wasserman so if you thought "The Kid Stays in the Picture" was informative just remember that that documentary was only the tip of the Hollywood iceberg.

Check this one out, you won't regret it. Educational and entertaining or as Lettermen likes to say, "it's INFO-tainment"!