[Video Link]”It is unlikely that you will experience in your lifetime all that you will see in The Carpetbaggers.”
From Aplantage4’s review:
The film is such an outrageous mix of Hollywood melodrama, pop psychology and salacious sleaze that it’s fun in a gruesome sort of way. It’s an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, which is one of the best-selling novels of all time, and the movie was also a huge hit (even though it’s much less explicit). The characters are based on famous movie people of the ’30s (eg Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, Tom Mix and Joan Crawford).
What I like best about the movie (and the trailer) is the main title theme by Elmer Bernstein.