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Elia Kazan - Films, stage work, and writing of the 1960s and ’70s of Elia Kazan

Who wrote the screenplay for Elia Kazan's film The Last Tycoon?

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Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him. — Elia Kazan Elia Kazan on the set of Panic in the Streets, 1950.

The screenplay for Elia Kazan's final film, The Last Tycoon (1976), was written by the playwright Harold Pinter.1