Review of The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) by Jack G — 22 Apr 2014

Wow ummm just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch.......its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie......i think that jack nicholson, bruce dern, ellen burstyn, julia anne robinson, scatman crothers (.R.I.P.), play good roles/parts throughout this movie......i think that the director of this drama/mystery/suspense/classics movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie.........its got a good soundtrack throughout this movie......i think that the ending of this movie is really sad but its such a classics movie 2 watch......

The film was one of several collaborations between Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, which included the cult 1968 Monkees film Head and Five Easy Pieces (1970), which established both men as major figures in Hollywood. Dern and Nicholson had previously worked together in Psych-Out (1968) and Rebel Rousers (1970) and Nicholson and Scatman Crothers subsequently co-starred in Milo Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Co-star Ellen Burstyn had previously worked in the TV series Gunsmoke, in which Dern had also appeared and would achieved worldwide fame the following year with her starring role in William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

The film is also notable as one of only a few screen appearances by Julia Anne Robinson (Jessica), who died in an apartment fire in Eugene, Oregon in 1975, aged 24.

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The King of Marvin Gardens was shot almost entirely on location in Atlantic City in the winter months of 1972. It is therefore of considerable historical significance as a visual record of the very last days of the city's "classic era" resort architecture. Many of the grand hotels shown in the film's exterior scenes were demolished within the next few years to make way for the new generation of casino-hotels that went up after the legalization of gambling. Filming took place only months before the vast Traymore Hotel was explosively demolished in April 1972, and the movie's main location, the opulent Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel was demolished in 1978 to make way for Bally's Atlantic City.

The title of the film (which was originally called "The Philosopher King") is an ironic reference to the American version of the board game Monopoly, in which the main properties were named after locations in Atlantic City. This reference was also reflected in the film's original poster art.

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