The Betsy

Daniel Petrie (director)
Harold Robbins (novel)
William Bast, Walter Bernstein (screenwriters)
Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katherine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones (starring)

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1978. Collection of 8 vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1978 film. Variant style, with no film credits displayed.

Based on Robbins' 1971 novel. Loren Hardeman Sr. (Olivier) is an aging auto magnate trying to manufacture a financially profitable, fuel-efficient car, so he commissions a racer named Angelo (Jones) to help with the development.

Little-known movie about the auto industry, making use of actual auto assembly footage, shot at the American Motors factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps and a brief smudge to all, else Near Fine.


[Book #139111]