What story does Mike Nichols’s film The Fortune tell about two con artists?

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Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards. — Mike Nichols American director Mike Nichols in 2010. He was one of only a few people to have ever earned an EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony over the course of his career.

In the 1975 film The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols, the story follows two con artists in the 1920s, played by Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. The pair attempts to secure a fortune by first romancing an heiress, portrayed by Stockard Channing, and subsequently plotting to steal her inheritance. While the film features elements of slapstick comedy, it was not initially well-received by audiences, though it has since gained recognition as an intelligent and offbeat work.1