The Betsy
Short description
The Betsy is a drama about a wealthy American car-making family and the conflicts that surround its ageing patriarch. Loren Hardeman, who built a small family business into a large automobile company, wants to create a new, highly efficient car in defiance of his grandson, who now runs the firm. To achieve this, he hires a former race-car driver, Angelo Perino, to develop the vehicle. The project soon causes tensions inside the company, and Angelo becomes romantically involved with two women close to Loren. The story is adapted from Harold Robbins's novel of the same name.
The film was directed by Daniel Petrie and released in 1978, in the period between Lifeguard and Fort Apache, the Bronx. Its screenplay was written by William Bast and Walter Bernstein, with Robert R. Weston producing. Laurence Olivier plays Loren Hardeman, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Jane Alexander and Lesley-Anne Down.
On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 5.2 from around 1,900 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 4.8 from a much smaller number of votes. It runs 125 minutes and was produced by United Artists, Allied Artists Pictures and Harold Robbins International Company.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot exclusively on location. No filming took place in studio pavilions.
- The assembly line at the plant of the fictional "Bethlehem Motors Company" was filmed at the American Motors Corporation plant located in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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