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Release Date: 1976

Cast: John Carradine, Robert De Niro, Peter Strauss, Robert Mitchum, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Jack Nicholson, Anjelica Huston, Jeanne Moreau, Dana Andrews, Theresa Russell

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Film à clef, Period piece, Film adaptation

The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American dramatic film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, sometimes known as The Love of the Last Tycoon. It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau and Theresa Russell. The film was the second collaboration between Kazan and Spiegel, who worked closely together to make On the Waterfront. Fitzgerald based the novel's protagonist, Monroe Stahr, on film producer Irving Thalberg. Spiegel was once... MORE

The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American dramatic film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, sometimes known as The Love of the Last Tycoon. It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau and Theresa Russell. The film was the second collaboration between Kazan and Spiegel, who worked closely together to make On the Waterfront. Fitzgerald based the novel's protagonist, Monroe Stahr, on film producer Irving Thalberg. Spiegel was once awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award. The film did not receive the critical acclaim that much of Kazan's earlier work received, but it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Gene Callahan, Jack T. Collis, Jerry Wunderlich). Coincidentally, it was Fitzgerald's last, unfinished novel, as well as the last film Kazan directed. An important symbolic aspect of the story (related to the first fact) is the unfinished beach house of the protagonist, which he visits to impress the woman with whom he has fallen in love. Monroe Stahr (De Niro) is the young production chief and the most LESS