The Carpetbaggers (film)

The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the bestselling novel of the same name by Harold Robbins, and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and in his last role Alan Ladd as Nevada Smith, a former western gunslinger turned actor. Carroll Baker, Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings and Elizabeth Ashley also star.

Jonas Cord becomes one of Americas richest men, inheriting an explosives company from his late father. Cord resents his father bitterly and is psychologically scarred by the death of a twin brother. Believing his family has insanity in its blood, he does not want children of his own.Cord buys up the company stock held by Nevada Smith, a former western gunslinger. Smith had practically raised Cord in the absence of his father. Cord pays off his fathers young widow Rina Marlowe, someone he believes had married his father strictly for money. She is portrayed as a sexually assertive golddigger. ........

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