The Last Tycoon (1976)

Actors: Donald Pleasence (actor), Peter Strauss (actor), Byron Morrow (actor), Robert Mitchum (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Jack Nicholson (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), John Carradine (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Ray Milland (actor), Bonnie Bartlett (actress),

Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: He has the power to make anyone's dream come true... except his own.

Quotes:

Kathleen: How old are you?::Monroe: I've lost track, about thirty-five I think.

Monroe: I don't think I have more brains than a writer, I just think that his brains belong to me

Monroe Stahr: Your name's well-known here.::Brimmer: And yours is well-known in New York, Mr. Stahr.::Cecilia Brady: [serving Monroe and Brimmer] You have done well by water and you by land.::Monroe Stahr: What?::Cecilia Brady: Anthony and Cleopatra, didn't you recognize it?::Monroe Stahr: Shakespeare? No, l didn't get any Shakespeare at school. How about you, Mr. Brimmer?::Brimmer: Oh, a bit.::Monroe Stahr: Where do you come from?::Brimmer: Tennessee. Baptist.::Monroe Stahr: l'm New York. Jewish.::Brimmer: l know.::Monroe Stahr: Oh, at least we're all Americans.::Brimmer: We sure are, Mr. Stahr. [Monroe smiles and nods; Brimmer takes a sip from his coffee; Cecilia smiles and looks on the both men] Well?::Monroe Stahr: Well, l'm glad you came out here. l wanted to talk to you. You've got my writers all upset.::Brimmer: Keeps them from going to sleep, doesn't it?::Monroe Stahr: l want them awake, but l don't want them crazy. [Brimmer stretches himself comfortably on his chair]::Brimmer: Well, we're simply fucking concerned that they have the proper protection, that's all.::Monroe Stahr: [eyeing Brimmer irritably] Who from, me?::Brimmer: You're a very good employer, Mr. Stahr, but, uh... we still think that the position can be... rationalized. [smiles]::Monroe Stahr: l'll tell you three things: All writers are children. Fifty percent are drunks. And up till very recently, writers in Hollywood were gag-men; most of them are still gag-men, but we call them writers.::Brimmer: [nods and smiles] Uh-huh. But they're still the farmers in this business. They grow the grain, but they're not in at the feast.::Monroe Stahr: This looks to me like a try for power, Mr. Brimmer, and I will not give them power. I'll give them money, I won't give them power. Anyway, they're not equipped for authority.::[Cecilia continues to look on the two; Brimmer laughes]::Cecilia Brady: More coffee, Mr. Brimmer?::Brimmer: No, thank you.

Brimmer: I always wanted to hit ten million dollars.

Cecilia Brady: [about returning to school] Oh, I don't know. I'm pretty well educated. [flirtatiously] Maybe I should get married.::Monroe Stahr: [lightly] Well, I'd marry you, I'm lonely, but I'm too old and tired to undertake anything.::Cecilia Brady: [seriously] Undertake me.

Pat Brady: I was just saying, they'll never get the writers unionized. You know why? Because they hate each other's guts. They'd sell each other out for a nickel.::Monroe Stahr: This man from New York seems pretty set on doing it, the one who's coming out to see me. What's his name?::Fleishacker: Brimmer.::Monroe Stahr: Brimmer.::Pat Brady: Communist, yeah?::Popolos: You mean a *real* communist?::Pat Brady: Yeah, sure, a real one.::Popolos: I mean, some of these guys are just jokers who call themselves communists. And mostly they are fairies, too.

Pat Brady: You know who first told him you were a genius? Guess.::Monroe Stahr: You.::Pat Brady: Right.::Monroe Stahr: Damn good of you, Pat.::Pat Brady: Oh, no. If I admire a man, I say so. I want the whole world to know. Perhaps that's because I'm Irish. The Irish are a very warm-hearted people.::Popolos: The Greeks are warm, too. I mean, try to find me a Greek communist. You couldn't find one.

Fleishacker: You know, I'm fairly new out here. Do I understand you to say you expect to gross a half a million *short* of your budget?::Monroe Stahr: It's a quality picture.::Fleishacker: Quality picture? What the hell are we?::Monroe Stahr: We've played safe for two years now. It's time we made a picture that isn't meant to *make* money. Pat Brady is always saying at Academy dinners that we have a certain duty to the public. Okay. It's a good thing for the company to slip in a picture that will lose money. Write it off as good will.

Pat Brady: [after a film screening] What's Eddie, asleep? Jesus. Goddamn movie even puts the editor to sleep.::Assistant editor: He's not asleep, Mr. Brady.::Pat Brady: What do you mean, he's not asleep?::Assistant editor: He's dead, Mr. Brady.::Pat Brady: Dead? What do you mean, he's dead!::Assistant editor: He must have died during the...::Pat Brady: How can he be dead? We were just watching the rough cut! Jesus, I didn't hear anything. Did you hear anything?::Fleishacker: Not a thing.::Assistant editor: Eddie... he probably didn't want to disturb the screening, Mr. Brady.

Popolos: This is the greatest country in the world. Everybody stands a chance in this country. There's not going to be a revolution. The only people who want a revolution are the Communists.::Pat Brady: And the fairies.::Fleishacker: What kind of a revolution do the fairies want?::Popolos: A Communist one.::Pat Brady: What else?::Fleishacker: Do you think Stalin likes homosexuals?::Popolos: Homosexuals, eh? Let me tell you something. You know "homo" is a Greek word. I come from Europe, I'm Greek.::Pat Brady: That's why he knows so much about Stalin.::Fleishacker: But Stalin ain't Greek.::Popolos: You're damn right he ain't!::Pat Brady: He's a fairy.::Popolos: He's a bastard Communist Russian fairy, that's what he is!