The Carpetbaggers (film)

The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based upon the best-selling novel of the same name by Harold Robbins, and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and (in his last role) Alan Ladd as Nevada Smith, a former western gunslinger turned actor. Carroll Baker, Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings and Elizabeth Ashley also star.