“She was the most famous woman in the world. He was a peasant, a pirate, a shark. What he couldn’t buy with money he captured with charm.” Director J. Lee Thompson mines then hot tabloid fodder, spinning the thinly-disguised (and heavily fictionalized) tale of widow Jacqueline Kennedy’s seemingly incongruous affair and subsequent marriage to Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis (played here by Zorba himself, Anthony Quinn). Jacqueline Bisset is the Jackie O surrogate and James Franciscus (Cat O’Nine Tails, Great White) stands in for JFK as President James Cassidy. Co-starring Edward Albert, Charles Durning and a bevy of pantheon Euro starlets (Camilla Sparv, Marilu Tolo and Luciana Paluzzi).
“…trashy, opulent, vulgar, racy… You’ve watched the headlines, now you can read the movie. Quinn is fabulous as a charming, wealthy, conniving and influential tycoon.” – Variety
“Set somewhere in a timeless Martini-land, The Greek Tycoon is an everyday love story of a shipping magnate and an assassinated president’s widow – a sort of Harold Robbins out of TitBits tabloid biopic.” – Time Out
Marc Edward Heuck discusses The Greek Tycoon on the New Beverly blog.
Chris D explores director J. Lee Thompson’s extensive career on the New Beverly blog.
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