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The Betsy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Daniel Petrie released in USA on 2 february 1978 with Laurence Olivier
The Betsy (1978)
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Add to a movie listThe Betsy is a 1978 film made by the Harold Robbins International Company and released by Allied Artists and United Artists. It was directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Robert R. Weston and Emanuel L. Wolf with Jack Grossberg as associate producer. The screenplay was by William Bast and Walter Bernstein, adapted from the novel of the same title by Harold Robbins.
The film stars Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander, Joseph Wiseman, Kathleen Beller, Edward Herrmann, Paul Ryan Rudd, and Lesley-Anne Down.
The novelist considered The Betsy as the "best movie adaptation of any of his works.
Synopsis
A fading family-owned automobile manufacturer and its owners pin their hopes for a return to profitability on a new model named for the great-granddaughter of the firm's founder.Actors
Laurence Olivier
(Loren Hardeman)
Tommy Lee Jones
(Angelo Perino)
Robert Duvall
(Loren Hardeman III)
Clifford David
Katharine Ross
(Sally Hardeman)
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