The Last Tycoon (1976)

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Directed by

Elia Kazan

Starring (View all)

Robert De Niro
Monroe Stahr

Tony Curtis
Rodriguez

Robert Mitchum
Pat Brady

Jeanne Moreau
Didi

Jack Nicholson
Brimmer

Donald Pleasence
Boxley

Ray Milland
Fleishacker

Dana Andrews
Red Ridingwood

Written by

F. Scott Fitzgerald
(novel)

Harold Pinter
(screenplay)

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Description: Robert de Niro is featured as Monroe Stahr, a young man from the East Side of New York who has overcome his humble origins and risen to a position of power as head of production for a prominent film company. His physical drive, business acumen, and showman's sense make him a threat to those around him, namely Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), the studio head and Fleishacker (Ray Milland), the shrewd lawyer from the East Coast investors. Stahr is a man on the move mothering performers (Tony Curtis as a matinee idol with marital problems and Jeanne Moreau as a finicky foreign actress), firmly handling screenwriters (Peter Strauss who Robert de Niro is featured as Monroe Stahr, a young man from the East Side of New York who has overcome his humble origins and risen to a position of power as head of production for a prominent film company. His physical drive, business acumen, and showman's sense make him a threat to those around him, namely Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), the studio head and Fleishacker (Ray Milland), the shrewd lawyer from the East Coast investors.

Stahr is a man on the move mothering performers (Tony Curtis as a matinee idol with marital problems and Jeanne Moreau as a finicky foreign actress), firmly handling screenwriters (Peter Strauss who must learn to work with others and Donald Pleasence, a literary figure who must adapt his talents to the requirements of the screen), and exercising total control over directors (he dumps Dana Andrews from a film when he doesn't draw out Moreau's full acting abilities). Stahr puts himself in a touchy situation when he suggests that the studio can afford to make a few quality pictures along with all the moneymakers.

His power position is really rocked when Kathleen Moore (Ingrid Boulting), an exotic English woman literally floats into his life clinging to the head of Shiva (a large prop) during the flooding of a set in a small Los Angeles earthquake. She is the incarnation of his fantasy woman — lovely, delicate, and mysterious. Stahr sees in her the very qualities lacking in Cecilia Brady (Theresa Russell), the aggressive and high-strung college-educated woman who's in love with him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was the essential romantic — a believer in kairotic moments of love. One of Kathleen's lines in the novel conveys this dimension of his writing: "There's a moment when you needn't and there's another when you known nothing in the world would keep it from you." Seduction is a dance of eros with alternating steps of holding back and giving oneself. The scenes with De Niro and Ingrid Boulting at Stahr's unfinished place near the ocean contain some of the most gentle and affecting moments of kairotic love seen in any movie this year. They capture the magical breakdown in a relationship when awkwardness and apprehension give way to free flowing emotion and spontaneous feeling.

Stahr — the man in total control — lets go only to lose Kathleen to another suitor. His problems on the job accelerate until he encounters a communist writer (Jack Nicholson) who is trying to organize screenwriters; Stahr loses his control and with one punch throws away his career. In the film's last scene, he walks alone into a dark and quiet sound stage. We imagine him stranded there doomed to wander forever in the empty shell of his Hollywood dream. ... (more)

Release date: 19 November 1976
UPC: 097360877649