The Fortune

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.High Definition remasterOriginal mono audioAudio 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 TheaterProfessor Kyle Stevens on 'The Fortune' (2017, 6 mins): appreciation by the author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological RealismIsolated music and effects trackImage gallery: on-set and promotional photographyNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing