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The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a figure loosely modeled on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor under the alias Nevada Smith, a role that was reprised the following year in a prequel starring Steve McQueen. Carroll Baker played an actress inspired by Jean Harlow, who appeared in John Hughes' film Hell's Angels. The Carpetbaggers was directed by Edward Dmytryk, shot in 70mm, and was Alan Ladd's final picture before his death a few months before its release. George Peppard plays a hard-working industrialist who is reminiscent of Howard Hughes in the film. While he builds planes, directs movies, and breaks hearts, his friends and loves strive to reach his human side and find it difficult. The title of the film is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who undertake fast financial takeovers, impose totalitarian regulations for short-term profits, and then move on to better pastures.