The Betsy

The Betsy is a 1978 American film directed by Daniel Petrie. It is the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Harold Robbins. ==Story[ Edit] == The patriarch Loren Hardeman SR. (Laurence Oliver) of a family business of car manufacturers hires a young race car driver Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones) in to secretly to design a new car, this against the will of his grandson (Robert Duvall), the president of the company. He calls the car to his great-granddaughter Betsy (Kathleen Beller). Perino has in the meantime a romantic relationship both with Betsy as with lady Bobby Ayres (Lesley-Anne Down). ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Laurence Olivier as Loren Hardeman Sr.
 * Tommy Lee Jones as Angelo Perino
 * Robert Duvall as Loren Hardemann III
 * Katharine Ross as Sally Hardeman
 * Jane Alexander as Alicia Hardeman
 * Lesly-Anne Down as Lady Ayres
 * Kathleen Beller as Betsy
 * Joseph Wiseman as Jake Weinstein
 * Edward Herrmann as Dan Weyman
 * Inga Swenson as Mrs. Craddock