The Fortune

Name: The Fortune
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime
Released: May 20, 1975
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Florence Stanley, Ian Wolfe, Jack Nicholson, John Fiedler, Richard B. Shull

1975

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: May 20, 1975 | PG

Starring: Florence Stanley, Ian Wolfe, Jack Nicholson, John Fiedler, Richard B. Shull, Rose Michtom, Scatman Crothers, Stockard Channing, Tom Newman, Warren Beatty

Summary: Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Director: Mike Nichols

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 min

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Vincent Canby

It's a marvelous attempt to recreate a kind of farce that, with the notable exceptions of a handful of films by Blake Edwards and Billy Wilder, disappeared after World War II. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A catalogue of slapstick errors, THE FORTUNE works well through the fine performances of the leads and the superb timing of director Nichols. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Redeemed a bit by Adrien Joyce’s Preston Sturges-inspired screenplay, Nichols’s film is nonetheless as unfunny as Carnal Knowledge, and just as vicious. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The Fortune is an occasionally enjoyable comedy trifle, starring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty as bumbling kidnappers of heiress Stockard Channing, who is excellent in her first major screen role. Very classy 1920s production values often merit more attention than the plot. Read full review

Paul D. Zimmerman

One is left longing for Mike Nichols, the brilliant satirist who made us laugh at our foibles, but who seems to have given way to a cynical, grimly grinning moralist. [26 May 1975, p.84]

Pauline Kael

The tone is too playful, too bright. Is the heiress herself meant to be a treasure? Is she meant to be charmingly klutzy? You can't tell.

Staff (Not Credited)

Events degenerate into miscalculated farce and underline Nichols' continuing slick superficiality. Adrien Joyce's much hacked-about script sounds as though it was once excellent: a pity everyone treats it so off-handedly. Read full review

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