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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Edward Dmytryk |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 09 April, 1964 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 097360631548 |
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Customer Reviews of The Carpetbaggers
superb movie A great film with an engrossing story- I literally could not take my eyes off it.George Peppard's signature role (better than Tiffany's). If you long for a movie with a great story buy it! Congrats to Paramount for the excellent transfer- sharp with great colours and very little evidence of print damage.
"A man is judged by what's in his head, not in his bed."
Great-bad movies are fun because they're so inane; it's impossible to tell whether the filmmakers themselves realized they were creating trash--and decided to make it as beautifully sordid as trash can be--or if they truly thought they were turning out a serious picture, and were totally surprised when the audiences laughed in all the wrong places. Great-bad movies are entertaining because they're so bad, they're good; everything in them is so extreme, so hollow, so overdone that instead of just run-of-the-mill, respectably mediocre failures, they turn out to be in their own way, unforgettable--impressive in the extent of their awfulness. In the first half of the Sixties, one film towered above all others as the era's most enjoyably terrible film, and that was Joseph E. Levine's "The Carpetbaggers", one of the biggest moneymakers of 1964.
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>"The Carpetbaggers" emerged as a kind of off-color comic book for adults, with ugly undercurrents of drama that meant nothing and led nowhere. Worst of all was the decision to make Jonas Cord, the heel of a non-hero, repentant at the finale, as compared to the far more realistic and meaningful situation of the very believable Sixties heel, Hud Bannon, who appeared more alienated at the end at the end than at the beginning of that film. "The Carpetbaggers" delivered none of the scintillating between characters its heavy advertising campaign promised, but it did provide viewers with some astonished chuckles at the seriousness with which these ridiculous (but entertaining, if you were in the mood to go slumming) antics were carried on. The movie grossed millions because people paid to see if it was as smutty as the book by Harold Robbins. It wasn't. Carroll Baker, who portrays platinum blonde bombshell Rina Marlowe (in a dry run for her title role in the following year's mega-bomb "Harlow") manages the not-inconsiderable feat of coming across the screen as utterly sexless. George Peppard, who portrays the head heel, went on to better things; alas Alan Ladd (whose last movie this was) did not. [filmfactsman]
Love the music and the storyline.
I've been a fan of this version of the movie for years. I love the theme music, and the storyline. George Pappard is wonderful also. Definitely dated, a lot of sexist stuff, pre women's lib.