(Mike Nichols, 1975)
Release date: 22 April 2024
Standard 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)
• 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
• 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