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The Fortune

Year:

1975

Duration:

88 min

Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Romance

IMDB rate:

5.8

Director:

Mike Nichols

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1975-10-16

Filming Locations: Culver Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Warren Beatty

Nicky

Jack Nicholson

Oscar

Stockard Channing

Freddie

Florence Stanley

Mrs. Gould

Richard B. Shull

Chief Detective Sergeant Jack Power

Tom Newman

John the Barber

John Fiedler

Photographer

Scatman Crothers

Fisherman

Ian Wolfe

Justice of the Peace

Christopher Guest

Boy Lover

Brian Avery

Airline Steward

Dub Taylor

Rattlesnake Tom

Catlin Adams

Girl Lover (as Nira Barab)

Rose Michtom

His Wife

Jim Antonio

1st Policeman

Vic Vallaro

2nd Policeman

Joe Tornatore

Detective

Kathryn Grody

Police Secretary

George Roberts

Officer

Jerry Trent

Dancer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This film was one of the two movies that Jack Nicholson made while waiting for production on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) to start.

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This was Stockard Channing's first credited film appearance.

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Stockard Channing replaced Bette Midler who was passed over for the role after asking Mike Nichols "What other movies have you done?" Cher also met Nichols to discuss the role but she, too, was not cast.

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Goofs

In the opening scene, where Freddie is kissing Nicky, she lifts her head up and the makeup line can clearly be scene on the bottom of her jaw.

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Near the beginning of the film, set in the 1920's, when Nicky and Oscar are eating breakfast on a train, they pass another train as seen through the windows. One of the train cars they pass displays a Burlington Northern railroad logo that did not exist before 1970.

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Quotes

Nicky Wilson: [To Frederica who's screaming because Oscar is walking on the plane's wing during flight] Just ignore him.

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