(Mike Nichols, 1975)Release date: 22 April 2024Standard Edition Blu-ray
This high-concept, big-budget screwball comedy directed by Mike Nichols (
The Graduate,
Wolf) stars Warren Beatty (
Mickey One,
Bonnie and Clyde) as a slick con man and Jack Nicholson (
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
The Border) as his dim-witted sidekick trying to get their hands on the fortune of a hapless young heiress played by Stockard Channing (
Grease,
The West Wing). A commercial failure on its initial release, this buoyant and beautifully staged madcap comedy is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal.
INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES
- High Definition remaster
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with critic and film historian Nick Pinkerton (2017)
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Mike Nichols and Elaine May in Conversation (2006, 69 mins): the two friends and collaborators discuss many aspects of filmmaking after a screening of May’s Ishtar at New York’s Walter Reade Theater
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Professor Kyle Stevens on ‘The Fortune’ (2017, 6 mins): appreciation by the author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism
- Isolated music and effects track
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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BBFC cert: 15
REGION FREEEAN: 5060697924466