The Last Tycoon (film)

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The Last Tycoon

Directed by	Elia Kazan
Produced by	Sam Spiegel
Written by	Harold Pinter
Starring	Robert DeNiro Tony Curtis Robert Mitchum Jack Nicholson Jeanne Moreau
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Cinematography	Victor J. Kemper
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	1976
Running time	122 min.
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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 DeNiro as "Monroe Stahr," Tony Curtis as "Rodriguez," Robert Mitchum as "Pat Brady," Jeanne Moreau as "Didi," and Jack Nicholson as "Brimmer." 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. An important symbolic aspect of the story is the unfinished beach house of the protagonist, Monroe Stahr that he visits to impress a young actress, Kathleen.

The theme of unfinished ambitions and the unattained love of the young and beautiful in Hollywood embodied by the beach house have great significance for both the Novelist and Director at the end of their luminary careers.[1]