Les Ambitieux

Original title: The Carpetbaggers

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6.5/10

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George Peppard and Carroll Baker in Les Ambitieux (1964)

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Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.

Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Writers
- Harold Robbins
- John Michael Hayes
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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

2.6K

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Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Writers
- Harold Robbins
- John Michael Hayes
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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Trivia
Carroll Baker, who played George Peppard's stepmother, played his mother two years earlier in La Conquête de l'Ouest (1962). Peppard is almost three years older than Baker.

Goofs
The story takes place in the 1920s and 1930s, but Carroll Baker, Martha Hyer and Elizabeth Ashley's hairstyles are from the 1963 time period in which the film was shot.

Quotes
Jonas Cord: [referring to a porn film] As for this, I've seen it. Twice. You had good lighting and a bad director.

Connections
Featured in Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen: Look Ma, No Clothes (1996)

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Featured review

7/10

Fictional and Fabulous

Like Charles Foster Kane, Jonas Cord is far more dashing and virile than the fellow this film carefully avoids claiming he was actually based on.

Harold Robbins' trashy 1961 bestseller cashing in on the late fifties fascination with the Roaring Twenties erupted into this Technicolor nonsense with a once in a lifetime cast (it was the debut of Elizabeth Ashley and the posthumous swansong of Alan Ladd). George Peppard is a much more rugged adventurer than the man it's not based on (who's actual story just continued to get weirder and weirder for another ten years after this version abruptly ends).