The recipe for making a good movie is not to copy someone else's earlier success with a copycat film. While watching The Fortune's plot unfold on the screen, I could not help but be reminded of the earlier 1973 film "The Sting" which starred another famous acting duo, Robert Redford and Paul Newman. To counter, director Mike Nichols, lasooed his own top starring acting duo in Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. The difference maker was a rarely unknown actress at that time (1975) named Stockard Channing who was supposed to be the glue that held the film's plot together, that being a rich heiress marries a loser (Jack Nicholson) which was the brainchild idea of the already married Warren Beatty in an attempt to extort a bag full of cash from Stockard Channing's filthy rich daddy's dowry.
Gradually Stockard's character nicknamed Freddy falls in love with both these scrupulous men even while they fail in their attempts several times to murder her to inherit her fortune by way of marriage and next of kin. I am sorry but it was a poor imitation of the earlier succesful 1973 film The Sting, which won seven (7) Academy Awards including Best Picture. Redford and Newman also had great success in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which also had a competing love interest in Katharine Ross. Are you starting to see that this 1975 film The Fortune was much like a Chinese knock off of a much better earlier quality film(s)?
The on-screen chemistry between Beatty and Nicholson vying for the attention of Channing failed and so did this film. I can only rate it a 5 out of 10.
Gradually Stockard's character nicknamed Freddy falls in love with both these scrupulous men even while they fail in their attempts several times to murder her to inherit her fortune by way of marriage and next of kin. I am sorry but it was a poor imitation of the earlier succesful 1973 film The Sting, which won seven (7) Academy Awards including Best Picture. Redford and Newman also had great success in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which also had a competing love interest in Katharine Ross. Are you starting to see that this 1975 film The Fortune was much like a Chinese knock off of a much better earlier quality film(s)?
The on-screen chemistry between Beatty and Nicholson vying for the attention of Channing failed and so did this film. I can only rate it a 5 out of 10.