Description: “The Last Tycoon” is the 24th episode in the first season of Playhouse 90. This episode, written by Don Mankiewicz and directed by John Frankenheimer, was based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title. In it, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
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Credits
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writers: Don Mankiewicz, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Producer: Martin Manulis
Cast: Richard Joy, Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lorre, Viveca Lindfors, Lee Remick, Robert F. Simon, John Hudson, Reginald Denny, William Roerick,
Helen Kleeb, Arthur Batanides, Edward McNally
Music by: Russell Garcia, Sammy Cahn, Alex North
Sound Department: Robert Mott
Story Editors: Peter Kornter, Del Reisman
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