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Filming took place only months before the vast Traymore Hotel was explosively demolished in April 1972, and the movie's main location, the once-opulent Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel was demolished in 1978 to make way for Bally's Atlantic City.
The King of Marvin Gardens: Directed by Bob Rafelson. With Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson. A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.
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 ...
The King of Marvin Gardens: Directed by Bob Rafelson. With Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson. A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.
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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.
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.
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Watchlist. NEW. David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) is a sullen radio personality who reconnects with his scheming brother, Jason (Bruce Dern), in Atlantic City, N.J. A fast-talking con man, Jason is...
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