The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)1h43
Drama
Director Bob Rafelson (6.3 avg)
Also directed Five Easy Pieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Black Widow, and 12 more
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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Cast
Jack Nicholson
Bruce Dern
Ellen Burstyn- Julia Anne Robinson
Scatman Crothers- Charles LaVine
John P. Ryan
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