The Last Tycoon’

Kazan’s final film, The Last Tycoon (1976), was an adaptation of an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a screenplay by playwright Harold Pinter. It seemed fitting that Kazan should retire from the screen with an actors’ showcase: Robert De Niro, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Tony

…for a second time on The Last Tycoon (1976), based on an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The last film Spiegel produced was a motion-picture version of Harold Pinter’s play Betrayal (1983).

…also wrote the screenplays for The Last Tycoon (1976), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), the screen version of his own play Betrayal (1983), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), and Sleuth (2007). Pinter was also a noted poet, and his verse—such as that collected in War (2003)—often reflected his political views and…