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   The King of Marvin Gardens. The King of Marvin Gardens is a 1972 American drama film. It stars Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and Scatman Crothers. It is one of several collaborations between Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson. The majority of the film is set in a wintry Atlantic City, New Jersey, with cinematography by László ...

2. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-king-of-marvinThe King of Marvin Gardens movie review (1972) - Roger Ebert

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   Reviews. The King of Marvin Gardens. Crime. 104 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1972. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1972. 4 min read. Bob Rafelson’s “The King of Marvin Gardens” is a perversely satisfying movie, it works after going out of its way not to, and a very eccentric one.

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   Oct 10, 2024 · Directed by Bob Rafelson • 1972. After charting the course for a new kind of American art film amid the bowling alleys and oil fields of Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson embarked on a sullen and perplexing follow-up.

4. www.bfi.org.uk › long-live-king-marvin-gardensLong live The King of Marvin Gardens | Sight and Sound - BFI

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   Jul 26, 2022 · The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) It’s no small irony, then, that Rafelson’s greatest film is also, without question, his quietest: the 1972 drama The King of Marvin Gardens, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has at its centre David Staebler (Nicholson), a morose, bespectacled radio monologuist in Philadelphia, with a rather ...

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   May 21, 2013 · In 1972, two years after their generation-defining study of masculinity ‘Five Easy Pieces’, director Bob Rafelson and star Jack Nicholson reteamed for this them.

6. www.bfi.org.uk › film › da54f5a3-b35e-5a4a-b4c4The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) - BFI

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   1972 USA Directed by Bob Rafelson Produced by Bob Rafelson Written by Jacob Brackman Featuring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn

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   Is the king of Marvin Gardens a good movie?

   • Bob Rafelson’s “The King of Marvin Gardens” is a perversely satisfying movie, it works after going out of its way not to, and a very eccentric one. It backs into its real subject in much the same way that “ Five Easy Pieces “, Rafelson’s previous film, did.

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   Who made the king of Marvin Gardens?

   • The King of Marvin Gardens was one of the final films produced by BBS, the revolutionary production company Rafelson cofounded, which had already given us Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971).

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   Where was King of Marvin Gardens filmed?

   • The King of Marvin Gardens was shot almost entirely on location in Atlantic City in the winter months of 1972. It is therefore of considerable historical significance as a visual record of the very last days of the city's "classic era" resort architecture.

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   Was Marvin Gardens a disappointment?

   • At the time, Marvin Gardens must have seemed a disappointment, but seen today it looks like the movie that best anticipated the coming era in American cinema.

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   Does Jason get a hotel in Marvin Gardens?

   • There’s the Boardwalk, of course, and Marvin Gardens itself; but there are also Jason’s attempts to buy a hotel, and the fact that he’s in jail when we first meet him. This stuff is worked in quietly enough by Jacob Brackman’s script, however, that it doesn’t really distract.

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8. www.themoviedb.org › movie › 50627-the-king-ofThe King of Marvin Gardens (1972) - The Movie Database (TMDB)

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   Overview. Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.