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The Carpetbaggers (1964) was a Drama Film directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Joseph E. Levine.

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The Carpetbaggers (1964) (2)

on Nov 25, 2013 From Journeys in Classic Film

The formula for a Hollywood tale is straight-forward: Watch a semi-despicable protagonist navigate the cruel waters of stardom while meeting thinly veiled representations of real stars, rinse, repeat. ?The Carpetbaggers is the foremost example of this theorem, originally based on a Harold Robbins po... Read full article


The Carpetbaggers (1964) (1)

By Brandy Dean on Oct 27, 2013 From Pretty Clever Films

The Carpetbaggers opens with a small bi-plane soaring through the clouds, accompanied by Elmer Bernstein’s gorgeous overwrought score. A solemn narrator tell us that this?the story of “the fictional and fabulous Jonas Cord Jr.” Junior, loosely based on Howard Hughes, proceeds to di... Read full article


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Rina Marlowe Cord: I like men. Maybe I hate them. I'm not always sure.


Jonas Cord: What do you want to see on your honeymoon?
Monica Winthrop: Lots of lovely ceilings!


Jonas Cord, Sr.: What are you trying to prove? That you're a man? Well, a man is judged by what's in his head, not in his bed.


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Paramount's highest-grossing film of 1964.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 10 seconds
This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
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