The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers
by Edward Dmytryk

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Actor: Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Ashley, George Peppard, Martha Hyer, Robert Cummings
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: Frank Bracht
Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Writer: Harold Robbins
Writer: John Michael Hayes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of The Carpetbaggers

DVD Review: Rare-Hard To Find DVD -"The Carpetbaggers"
Summary: 5 Stars

A classic movie which has been very hard to locate on dvd. When found on various sites the price of the movie/dvd was high. Amazon had the product and at a much lower cost. Another movie/dvd I recently ordered, and very hard to locate at a decent cost, was "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf", an Elizebeth Taylor/Richard Burton classic. Again, Amazon was the site I found the item.

In the tradition of E.Taylor/R.Hudson/J.Dean's "Giant". An epic of the rich and powerful. Calleds a "bad" movie, I found it to just the opposite. Great story line for it's time.

DVD Review: The Carpetbaggers
Summary: 5 Stars

Received this CD as described. CD was in excellent condition and played with out problem. Highly recommend this seller. Thanks for a great evening of classic movie watching.......David

DVD Review: Trash at its most stylized best
Summary: 5 Stars

Probably my favorite ALL TIME movie. I watch it not just for the story but also for the subtle facial expressions at certain moments...ohhh when Jonas decided he just found his lead actress in Rina, smirking as she was distributing the sandwiches to the out of work crew...his expression...Pappard is the epitome of cool...The whole film is Americana sine qua non just as American Grafitti is...The one liners are pricesless...Miss Baker is beyond perfect...LOVED IT! ALWAYS WILL!

DVD Review: Excellent "Old Movie"
Summary: 5 Stars

The Carpetbaggers was a movie I remember years ago, It was excellent then and it still is!

DVD Review: superb movie
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Description of The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trash classic most people are too embarrassed to admit they actually enjoy. But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time--especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way. The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast: Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut--uncharacteristically, as a good girl. The sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star. Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along, but the rest is thick melodrama indeed. --Robert Horton

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