| The Carpetbaggers | |
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| Directed by | Edward Dmytryk |
| Screenplay by | John Michael Hayes |
| Based on | The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins |
| Produced by | Joseph E. Levine |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Edited by | Frank Bracht |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.3 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $40 million[2] |
The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the best-selling 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and Alan Ladd in his last role as Nevada Smith, a former Western gunslinger turned actor. The supporting cast features Carroll Baker as a character extremely loosely based on Jean Harlow as well as Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Ralph Taeger, Leif Erickson, Archie Moore and Tom Tully.
The film is a landmark of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, venturing further than most films of the period with its heated sexual embraces, innuendo, and sadism between men and women, much like the novel, where author Dawn Sova asserts "there is sex and/or sadism every 17 pages".[3]
- ^ "The fruitful labours of Levine". Sunday Times. London, England. 11 Oct 1964. p. 29 – via The Sunday Times Digital Archive.
- ^ a b Box Office Information for The Carpetbaggers. IMDb via Internet Archive. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- ^ Sova, Dawn B. (1 January 2006). Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds. Infobase Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8160-7149-4.