Movies
February, 1977
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon—a novel revered as a classic despite the fact that Fitzgerald died before completing his first draft—is now back in circulation as an unfinished movie, adapted by Harold Pinter for producer Sam Spiegel and director Elia Kazan. Slow, mannered and elliptical. Tycoon on film is an exercise in frustration. The movie breaks off approximately where the book does, with characters only half developed, conflicts outlined but unresolved, loose ends of plot dangling in...
