The Last Tycoon (1976)

The Last Tycoon (1974)

Budget (GBP)	5,000,000
Distribution Company	Paramount Pictures (Distributor \| Est. Unknown)
Release Date	17 November 1976 Confidence Level
Black and White	No
Regional Release	No
Release Notes	USA 17 November 1976 (New York City, New York); USA 18 November 1976 (Los Angeles, California); USA 19 November 1976; Austria 1977; Italy 8 January 1977; Argentina 10 February 1977; UK 24 February 1977; West Germany 11 March 1977; Finland 25 March 1977; Netherlands 31 March 1977; Ireland 1 April 1977; France 13 April 1977; Sweden 2 May 1977; Denmark 11 May 1977; Spain 23 May 1977; Japan 28 January 1978; France 22 January 2014 (re-release); Greece 14 October 2014 (Greek Film Archive).
Description	Sir Robert Thorndyke (Peter O'Toole) is an aristocrat and hunter who, just for the sport of it, tracks Adolph Hitler to his mountain retreat. With the Fuhrer in his crosshairs, Thorndyke is caught and subsequently tortured by the SS. They attempt to kill him and make his death seem like a hunting accident, but Thorndyke escapes back to England -- only to find that German agents have followed him there. The hunter soon finds himself the hunted in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Pinter wrote the screenplay based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished 1941 novel.
Language	English

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Linked People

Elia Kazan (1909 - 2003)

Creative | Director

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

Creative | Author (original novel)

Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Screenplay

Sam Spiegel (1901 - 1985)

Production | Producer

Maurice Jarre (1924 - 2009)

Creative | Music

Victor J. Kemper (1927)

Creative | Cinematographer

Richard Marks (1943 - 2018)

Creative | Film Editor

Jane Feinberg

Creative | Casting

Mike Fenton

Creative | Casting

Jack T. Collis (1923 - 1998)

Creative | Art Director

Jerry Wunderlich (1925 - 1999)

Creative | Set Decoration

Anna Hill Johnstone (1913 - 1992)

Creative | Costume Designer

Anthea Sylbert (1939)

Creative | Costume Designer

Gary Liddiard

Creative | Makeup Artist

Jean Burt Reilly (1915 - 1981)

Creative | Hairstylist

Lloyd Anderson (1916 - 1996)

Production | Production Manager

Gary Daigler

Creative | Second Assistant Director

Daniel McCauley (1916 - 2004)

Creative | First Assistant Director

Ron Wright (1943)

Creative | Second Assistant Director

Larry Jost (1921 - 2001)

Technical | Sound Mixer

Barbara Marks

Technical | Sound Editor

Robert Poore

Technical | Sound Editor

Robert Reitano

Technical | Sound Editor

Winston Ryder (1915 - 1999)

Technical | Sound Editor

Dick Vorisek (1918 - 1989)

Technical | Re-recording mixer

Henry Millar

Technical | Special effects

Ray De La Motte (1944)

Technical | First assistant camera

Earl Gilbert

Technical | Gaffer

Marcia Reed

Technical | Still Photographer

Bob Rose

Technical | Key grip

Robert C. Thomas

Technical | Camera operator

Robert L. Vargas Jr.

Technical | Assistant camera

Joseph Glassman

Technical | Music editor

Maurice Jarre (1924 - 2009)

Creative | Conductor

Joseph Sullivan

Technical | Driver

Karen Wookey

Production | Script supervisor

Daniel McAuley

Creative | Title Designer

Frank L. Brown

Technical | Set dressing lead man

Uncredited

Gary L. King

Technical | Propmaker

Uncredited

Gene Callahan (1923 - 1990)

Creative | Production Designer

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Characters

Linked Awards

National Board of Review Award

1975

Won: Best English-Language Film

National Board of Review Award

1975

Ten Best Films list

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award

1975

Nominated: Best Art Direction

New York Film Critics' Circle Award

1975

Nominated: Best Screenwriting

Linked Places

Paradise Cove - 28128 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu

Unfinished Beach House.

Paramount Studio, Hollywood

Studio.

Resources

Tom Allen, 'The Last Tycoon', Soho Weekly News, 18 November 1976 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=5652

PDF available

Andrew Sarris, 'A Stahr is reborn', Village Voice, 15 November 1976 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=5653

PDF available

'Fitzgerald divided by Pinter equals a minus sum', West Bay Today, 26 December 1976 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=5657

PDF available

Irene Atkins, 'Hollywood Revisited: A Sad Homecoming', Literature/Film Quarterly, 5:2 (1977), pp. 105-11. (Paper-based)

Type: Article

External Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43796067?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Jay Cocks, 'Babylon Revisited', Time, 6 December 1976, pp. 87-88 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Robert Hatch, 'Films, The Last Tycoon', Nation, 11 December 1976, p. 637 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Nation-1976dec11-00637/

PDF currently unavailable

Stanley Kauffmann, 'The Last Tycoon', The New Republic, 4 December 1976, pp. 20- 21 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/NewRepublic-1976dec04-00020/

PDF currently unavailable

Stephen Koch, 'Humiliation in Hollywood, "A Review of The Last Tycoon"', Harper's, March 1977, pp. 102-4 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Harpers-1977mar-00102/

PDF currently unavailable

Jack Kroll, 'Falling Stahr', Newsweek, 22 Nov.ember 1976, pp. 107-8 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

External Link: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=5723

Document available by request from UC Berkley database.

Saturday Review, 11 December, 1976, pp. 77-78 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

A. D. Murphy, 'The Lasty Tycoon', Variety, 17 December 1976 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=5725

PDF available

The Last Tycoon Trailer, 1976 (URL)

Type: Trailer

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrU8KK3inc

Original trailer

Sources

IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074777/

URL

Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)

Academic book

Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.

'Pinter to Adapt "The Last Tycoon"', 20 January 1974

https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=5726

URL

Source for budget range. Amount given in dollars with range of 5-7000000.

The Last Tycoon (1976)

Linked Productions

Linked People

Linked Organisations

Characters

Monroe Stahr (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Rodriguez (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Pat Brady (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Didi (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Brimmer (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Kathleen Moore (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Fleishaker (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Red Ridingwood (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Cecilia Brady (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Wylie White (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Popolos (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Marcus (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Guide (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Doctor (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Edna (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Brady's Secretary (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Brady's Secretary (2) (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Norman (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Esther Rodriguez (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Kino (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Assistant Editor (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Lady in Restaurant (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Hairdresser (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Lady Writer (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Girl on Beach (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Monroe Stahr's Secretary (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Executive (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Man at Front Table (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Monroe Stahr's Secretary (2) (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Waiter in Stahr's Office (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Executive (2) (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Doorman (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Studio Executive (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Film Crew Member (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Disgruntled Lady in Elevator (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Man at Dailies (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Extra on Set (The Last Tycoon) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Boxley (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Linked Awards

Linked Places

Resources

Tom Allen, 'The Last Tycoon', Soho Weekly News, 18 November 1976 (URL)

Andrew Sarris, 'A Stahr is reborn', Village Voice, 15 November 1976 (URL)

'Fitzgerald divided by Pinter equals a minus sum', West Bay Today, 26 December 1976 (URL)

Irene Atkins, 'Hollywood Revisited: A Sad Homecoming', Literature/Film Quarterly, 5:2 (1977), pp. 105-11. (Paper-based)

Jay Cocks, 'Babylon Revisited', Time, 6 December 1976, pp. 87-88 (Paper-based)

Robert Hatch, 'Films, The Last Tycoon', Nation, 11 December 1976, p. 637 (URL)

Stanley Kauffmann, 'The Last Tycoon', The New Republic, 4 December 1976, pp. 20- 21 (URL)

Stephen Koch, 'Humiliation in Hollywood, "A Review of The Last Tycoon"', Harper's, March 1977, pp. 102-4 (URL)

Jack Kroll, 'Falling Stahr', Newsweek, 22 Nov.ember 1976, pp. 107-8 (Paper-based)

Saturday Review, 11 December, 1976, pp. 77-78 (Paper-based)

A. D. Murphy, 'The Lasty Tycoon', Variety, 17 December 1976 (URL)

The Last Tycoon Trailer, 1976 (URL)

Sources

IMDB

Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

'Pinter to Adapt "The Last Tycoon"', 20 January 1974