The Betsy
Director: Daniel Petrie
Genre: Romance Film, Romantic drama, Film adaptation, Indie, Melodrama, Period piece, Drama
Year: 1978
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Edward Herrmann, Katharine Ross, Lesley-Anne Down, Joseph Wiseman, Kathleen Beller, Jane Alexander, Paul Ryan Rudd, Clifford David
The Betsy is a 1978 film made by the Harold Robbins International Company and released by Allied 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 novelist considered The Betsy as the "best movie adaptation of any of his works."
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 Betsy features music composed by John Barry. It was filmed at Rosecliff mansion in Newport Rhode Island.
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.
The aging Loren Hardeman remains the titular head of a Detroit automotive conglomerate. (An obvious parallel exists between this fictional character and that of Henry Ford.) His grandson, Loren III, now runs the company as president, but has diversified into other fields and is concerned
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