Tycoon is a 1947 American Technicolor romance film directed by Richard Wallace and starring John Wayne. It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by C.E. Scoggins.
Tycoon | |
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Directed by | Richard Wallace |
Written by | Borden Chase John Twist |
Based on | Tycoon 1934 novel by C.E. Scoggins |
Produced by | Stephen Ames |
Starring | John Wayne Anthony Quinn Laraine Day |
Cinematography | W. Howard Greene Harry J. Wild |
Edited by | Frank Doyle |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
Production company | RKO Pictures |
Distributed by | RKO Pictures |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.2 million[1] |
Box office | $2.5 million (US rentals)[2] |
Johnny Munroe (John Wayne) travels to South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel for Frederick Alexander (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a wealthy industrialist. Complications arise when Alexander insists upon a shorter, more dangerous passage and when his daughter Maura (Laraine Day) develops a romantic interest with Johnny.
Maureen O'Hara was originally cast as Wayne's leading lady, but RKO put her in Sinbad the Sailor instead.[3] Set in the Andes, the film was originally intended to be filmed at RKO's Estudios Churubusco in Mexico but at the last minute production was shifted to Lone Pine, California.[3]
Though successful, the film did not earn back its huge production costs of RKO's most expensive production up to that time.[4][self-published source] It ended up losing $1,035,000.[5]