The Last Tycoon

Based On the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American period romantic drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel The Last Tycoon. It stars Robert De Niro and features Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell and Ingrid Boulting. The film is the second collaboration between Kazan and Spiegel, who worked together to make On the Waterfront (1954). Fitzgerald based the novel's protagonist Monroe Stahr on film producer Irving Thalberg.

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Release date:

November 17, 1976

Director:

Elia Kazan

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence

Genre:

Drama

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1976 in adaptations