The Greek Tycoon
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Theatrical release poster by David Blossom. The tagline reads:
"She was the most famous woman in the world. He was a peasant, a pirate, a shark. What he couldn't buy with money he captured with charm." |
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| Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
| Produced by |
Allen Klein Ely Landau |
| Written by |
Morton S. Fine (screenplay) Nico Mastorakis Win Wells Morton S. Fine (story) |
| Starring |
Anthony Quinn Jacqueline Bisset James Franciscus |
| Music by | Stanley Myers |
| Cinematography | Anthony Richmond |
| Edited by | Alan Strachan |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6.5 million |
The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 American drama film, of the roman à clef type, directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis, and Win Wells, who loosely based it on Aristotle Onassis and his relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy. Mastorakis denied this, instead stating "We're not doing a film about Aristotle Onassis. It's a personification of all Greek Tycoons." The film stars Anthony Quinn in the title role and Jacqueline Bisset as the character based on Kennedy. Quinn also appeared in Thompson's picture The Passage, released the following year.
The film focuses on the courtship and marriage of aging Greek Theo Tomasis, who rose from his humble peasant roots to become an influential mogul who owns oil tankers, airlines, and Mediterranean islands and longs to be elected President of Greece, and considerably younger Liz Cassidy, the beautiful widow of the assassinated President of the United States. The two first meet when she is visiting his island estate with her husband James, the charismatic Senator from the state of Massachusetts. Theo immediately is attracted to her and, despite the fact she obviously is happily married, begins to woo her aboard his yacht while her husband is deep in conversation with the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. As the plot unfolds, Theo's beloved son Nico dies in an accident, his wife Simi commits suicide, James becomes President and appoints his brother John Attorney General, and Theo ends his affair with Paola to comfort and eventually marry grieving widow Liz.
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