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MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 5 minutes
Country USA
Studio Allied Artists, Harold Robbins International
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Other Titles
• The Betsy
• Der Clan (1978)
• Harold Robbins' The Betsy
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Genre: Drama, Suspense, Gay/Lesbian, Melodrama, Period Piece
Tagline: The Harold Robbins people. What you dream...they do!
Plot: THE BETSY, directed by Daniel Petrie and based on Harold Robbins's sordid potboiler about several generations of an American car manufacturing dynasty, stars Laurence Olivier as 90-year-old Loren Hardeman, who rules the family with an iron fist. The clan, nonetheless, is constantly involved in intrigues and affairs ranging from adultery to abuse of power. Although Loren has passed along the family business to his grandson, Loren Hardeman III (Robert Duvall), he has one idea that he is desperate to realize. The Betsy is Loren's dream car, named after his doting great-granddaughter (Kathleen Beller), and he hires Angelo Perino (a young and seductive Tommy Lee Jones) to help him secretly create the economical, efficient vehicle. Angelo is an injured race car driver who diligently works to design the car while seducing Betsy and having an affair with Loren III's mistress (a terrifically haughty Lesley-Anne Down). But the money-grubbing auto industry isn't too fond of Loren's secret pursuit, and their desire to sabotage him soon sets off more melodramatic action than a family can handle. This soap opera, brimming over with intrigue and seduction has been compared to television's DYNASTY and other spicy tales of romance and big money power plays. Petrie's film is certainly ripe with
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William Bast
The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Valley of Gwangi, The Man in the Iron Mask | Walter Bernstein
The Legend of Billie Jean, The Front, The House on Carroll Street |
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Robert Duvall
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Apocalypse Now |
 | Katharine Ross
The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Final Countdown |
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 | Jane Alexander
The Ring, The Cider House Rules, All the President's Men |
 | Lesley-Anne Down
The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The First Great Train Robbery, Hanover Street |
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John Barry
Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger, Moonraker |
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