The Last Tycoon (film)

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The Last Tycoon
Theatrical release poster
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
IMDb profile

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" and Jeanne Moreau as "Didi." 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.

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The Last Tycoon at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by Elia Kazan

1940s	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) • The Sea of Grass (1947) • Boomerang! (1947) • Gentleman's Agreement (1947) • Pinky (1949)

1950s	Panic in the Streets (1950) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) • Viva Zapata! (1952) • Man on a Tightrope (1953) • On the Waterfront (1954) • East of Eden (1955) • Baby Doll (1956) • A Face in the Crowd (1957)

1960s	Wild River (1960) • Splendor in the Grass (1961) • America, America (1963) • The Arrangement (1969)

1970s	The Visitors (1972) • The Last Tycoon (1976)