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The Fortune

film by Nichols [1975]
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  • EGOT winner
    Mike Nichols
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    …with the frenetic comic caper The Fortune (1975), which featured Nicholson and Warren Beatty as a pair of 1920s con artists who first romance an heiress (Stockard Channing) and then try to steal her inheritance. Although Beatty and Nicholson demonstrated some talent for slapstick, this was not the type of…

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    …with the frenetic comic caper The Fortune (1975), which featured Nicholson and Warren Beatty as a pair of 1920s con artists who first romance an heiress (Stockard Channing) and then try to steal her inheritance. Although Beatty and Nicholson demonstrated some talent for slapstick, this was not the type of…

    Read More