Film within film. A success story written by a man who was orphaned as a child, spent a long time between streets and orphanages... until he became a millionaire selling sugar. After losing his fortune, he went to Hollywood where, challenging a director of Universal, decided to write a novel: "Not as a Stranger", which describes her experiences in the orphanage, and soon became a hit record sales. In this follow two dozen works, most successful and made into films, excelling "The Carpetbaggers" by his strong narrative and the construction of characters that give a precise account of this strange, fascinating, complex and yet deplorable world power. Harold Robbins is his name.
In this glittering film version, made by Edward Dmytryk with all the required solvency a project of this type: Luxury rooms, precise alignment of 30' years, splendid music, full color photography and a cast of renowned, the race to the dazzling economic power of a man who reminds us, inaccurate but intentionally, extremely well-known Howard Hughes, is captured with a vigor is maintained from beginning to end, and a handful of characters that imposes an effective framework for a class marked by careerism, opportunism, the compulsive desire for money and their ability to trample on anyone to get away with such with it.
The most significant in this environment is that Dmytryk, insurance and Robbins, reveal a fair appreciation of their characters and give them the best arguments to explain their actions, to understand their false starts and we get to see them as what they really are: extremely fragile beings, working to do and get hurt, and capable of doing everything, absolutely everything... except happiness.
George Peppard, recreates with great destination for a man with a personality, in principle, enviable: defined, direct, with clear objectives, always ready to take the reins firmly and take the consequences of their actions. But that also bears its inevitable and heavy shadow: passes over anyone, without ambassy gets rid of one who serves or fails to serve, is male chauvinist and promiscuous, and has a lust for power that knows no bounds: "get master of the world "should be among its purposes. And it endorses the deal: Baker, Ladd, Ashley, Cummings.. unobjectionable.
This is a brilliant film that overwhelms us and impacts.
In this glittering film version, made by Edward Dmytryk with all the required solvency a project of this type: Luxury rooms, precise alignment of 30' years, splendid music, full color photography and a cast of renowned, the race to the dazzling economic power of a man who reminds us, inaccurate but intentionally, extremely well-known Howard Hughes, is captured with a vigor is maintained from beginning to end, and a handful of characters that imposes an effective framework for a class marked by careerism, opportunism, the compulsive desire for money and their ability to trample on anyone to get away with such with it.
The most significant in this environment is that Dmytryk, insurance and Robbins, reveal a fair appreciation of their characters and give them the best arguments to explain their actions, to understand their false starts and we get to see them as what they really are: extremely fragile beings, working to do and get hurt, and capable of doing everything, absolutely everything... except happiness.
George Peppard, recreates with great destination for a man with a personality, in principle, enviable: defined, direct, with clear objectives, always ready to take the reins firmly and take the consequences of their actions. But that also bears its inevitable and heavy shadow: passes over anyone, without ambassy gets rid of one who serves or fails to serve, is male chauvinist and promiscuous, and has a lust for power that knows no bounds: "get master of the world "should be among its purposes. And it endorses the deal: Baker, Ladd, Ashley, Cummings.. unobjectionable.
This is a brilliant film that overwhelms us and impacts.