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Contempt

7.0/ 10

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1963

Release Year

103 min

Runtime

Drama
Romance

Overview

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

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Keywords

jealousy
based on novel or book
villa
love triangle
italy
movie business
capri
screenwriter
car crash
divorce

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 10, 2023

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6/10

Jack Palance is ideally cast here as the Hollywood producer ("Prokosch") who has commissioned the legendary director Fritz Lang to breathe a last breath of life into the once thriving peplum genre with an adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey". He sees the rushes, and aside from a little nymph swimming in

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