The Last Tycoon (1976)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Genres - Drama, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Film a Clef, Period Film, Showbiz Drama |
Release Date - Nov 18, 1976 (USA) |
Run Time - 122 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Paul Brenner
Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and detached manner, and as Kazan pans around the Hollywood Dream Factory of the 1930s, Starr juggles several productions, deals with nervous actors and recalcitrant directors, stays afloat in the Hollywood corporate battlefields, and secretly carries on a love affair with an even cooler and more detached English girl, Kathleen Moore (Ingrid Boulting).
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Keywords
executive, film-company, film-producer, film-studio, Hollywood, movie-studio, widow/widower
Attributes
High Artistic Quality, High Production Values