The Carpetbaggers
It is unlikely that you will experience in a lifetime all that you will see in... THE CARPETBAGGERS.
Actors: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer
Movie Details
- Title
- The Carpetbaggers
- Overview
- 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.
- Runtime
- 2 h 30 min
- Release Date
- 8 April 1964
- Actors
- George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Martin Balsam, Ralph Taeger, Archie Moore, Leif Erickson, Arthur Franz, Tom Tully, Audrey Totter, Anthony Warde, Charles Lane, Bess Flowers, Ann Doran, Vaughn Taylor, Tom Lowell, John Conte, Francesca Bellini, Lisa Seagram, Victoria Jean, Paul Frees
- Certification
- Approved
- Genres
- Drama
- IMDb
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