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The Carpetbaggers is an American film released in 1964 that stars George Peppard as a character that is largely based on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith. The role of Nevada Smith was played the following year by Steve McQueen in a prequel to The Carpetbaggers. Carroll Baker portrayed an actress whose character was based on Jean Harlow, who had a role in the film epic Hell's Angels directed by Howard Hughes. Edward Dmytryk was the director of The Carpetbaggers, which was filmed in 70mm, and it was Alan Ladd's final feature; Ladd passed away a few months before the film was released. The character that George Peppard plays in the film is a hard-driven industrialist who bears more than a passing resemblance to Howard Hughes. Friends and lovers of his struggle to connect with his human side while he is busy designing airplanes, directing movies, and breaking people's hearts. They realize that it is an uphill battle. The title of the movie is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who carry out fast financial takeovers, impose totalitarian rules for short-term profits, and then move on to greener pastures. The film follows one such tycoon.