The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers

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Based On Novel Or Book | Carpetbagger

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Edward Dmytryk, Michael D. Moore
  • Cast(s): George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 2h 30min
  • Music: Elmer Bernstein,Charles Grenzbach,Bill Wistrom,John R. Carter,Sam Freed Jr.
  • Award(s): Golden Laurel 1965 (Won)
    Golden Globe 1965 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Song Sung Blue
  • Story:
    The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel starring Steve McQueen in the part. Carroll Baker portrayed an actress inspired by Jean Harlow, who appeared in Hughes' film epic Hell's Angels. The Carpetbaggers was directed by Edward Dmytryk, filmed in 70mm, and was Alan Ladd's final film; Ladd died some months before its release.In the movie, George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.
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6.5/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel starring Steve McQueen in the part. Carroll Baker portrayed an actress inspired by Jean Harlow, who appeared in Hughes' film epic Hell's Angels. The Carpetbaggers was directed by Edward Dmytryk, filmed in 70mm, and was Alan Ladd's final film; Ladd died some months before its release.In the movie, George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.
Ratings

6.5/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Golden Laurel Award

Drama | 1965

NBR Award

Best Supporting Actor | 1964 | Martin

Nominations
Golden Globe Award

Best Supporting Actress | 1965 | Elizabeth

BAFTA Film Award

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | 1965 | Elizabeth

Golden Laurel Award

Dramatic Performance Female | 1965 | Carroll

Dramatic Performance Male | 1965 | George

BOX OFFICE

Box Office Collection 40,000,000 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Carroll Baker, who played George Peppard's stepmother/lover, played his mother two years earlier in How the West Was Won (1962). Peppard is almost 3 years older than Baker.

The early life of Alan Ladd's character that was told in the novel was made into the Steve McQueen film Nevada Smith (1966). Coincidentally, both Ladd and McQueen died at the age of 50.

This was Alan Ladd's final film before his death on January 29, 1964 at the age of 50.

Once considered so racy it was advertised as being "for adults only", this film was re-released in 1972, and resubmitted to the MPAA for a rating. Indicating how much standards had changed in nearly a decade, it was given a PG (the PG-13 rating having not been created yet).

Filmed in 35mm, this was one of the first films to be blown up to 70mm for its premiere screening.

Popular Dialogues

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