| Tycoon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Wallace |
| Produced by | Stephen Ames |
| Written by | Borden Chase, John Twist C.E. Scoggins (novel) |
| Starring | John Wayne Laraine Day |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Cinematography | W. Howard Greene Harry J. Wild |
| Editing by | Frank Doyle |
| Distributed by | RKO Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 27, 1947 |
| Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,209,000 (estimated) |
Tycoon is a 1947 Technicolor romance film starring John Wayne based on the 1934 novel by C.E. Scoggins.
Contents |
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.[1] 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.[2] Though successful, the film did not earn back its huge production costs of RKO's most expensive production up to that time.[3]