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Lucky Lady
Theatrical poster by Richard Amsel
Directed byStanley Donen
Written byWillard Huyck
Gloria Katz
Produced byMichael Gruskoff
StarringGene Hackman
Liza Minnelli
Burt Reynolds
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited byPeter Boita
Music byRalph Burns
Production
company
Gruskoff/Venture Films
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
December 25, 1975 (1975-12-25)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13 million
Box office$24,441,725[1]

Lucky Lady is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds, with Robby Benson. Its story takes place during Prohibition in the United States in the year 1930.

Gene Hackman initially did not want to do the film, but 20th Century Fox kept offering him more and more money. Finally, Fox offered him $1.25 million, and according to talent agent Sue Mengers, "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film."[2]

On February 1, 2011 Shout! Factory released the film on DVD for the first time.[3]

Plot

During the Prohibition era, a young widow, Claire, gets involved in liquor smuggling and romance with two men, Walker and Kibby, off the San Diego coast. Organized crime controls bootlegging back east and wants to do the same here, so a hit man named McTeague is sent to deal with these amateur crooks, as is the Coast Guard, leading to various battles at sea.

Cast

Production

The script was sold for $450,000.[4] The writers wanted Steven Spielberg to direct and he was interested but had made a commitment to do Jaws.[5]

Donen originally wanted Paul Newman and Warren Beatty for the lead male roles with production scheduled to begin in October 1974. Later, in November 1974, Reynolds was signed along with George Segal, who later dropped out of the project and was quickly replaced with Hackman.[6] Filming began in Mexico in February 1975 and finished in July of that year.

Release

The film earned rentals of $12.1 million in North America.[7]

Additional information

This film was also released under the following titles:

  • Abenteurer auf der Lucky Lady - West Germany
  • Belali sevgili - Turkey
  • I tyheri kyria - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
  • In 3 sul Lucky Lady - Italy
  • Los aventureros de Lucky Lady - Spain
  • Oh, vilket sjöslag! - Sweden
  • Os aventureiros de Lucky Lady - Brazil (TV title)
  • Tre smarte smuglere på 'Lucky Lady' - Denmark
  • Uma Mulher dos Diabos - Portugal (imdb display title)
  • Una dama con suerte - Venezuela
  • Viskiseikkailu Lucky Ladyllä - Finland

Soundtrack

  • "Empty Bed Blues" - Written by J.C. Johnson, Performed by Bessie Smith
  • "Ain't Misbehavin'" - Music by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks, Lyrics by Andy Razaf, Performed by Burt Reynolds
  • "A Hot Time in the Old Town" - Music by Theo. A. Metz, Lyrics by Joe Hayden, Performed by Bessie Smith
  • " (Get) While the Getting is Good" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza Minnelli
  • "Lucky Lady Montage" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza Minnelli
  • "Lucky Lady (reprise)" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza Minnelli

References

  1. ^ "Lucky Lady, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  2. ^ Litwak, Mark (1986). Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood. New York: William Morrow and Company. p. 86. ISBN 0-688-04889-7.
  3. ^ "Lucky Lady, 1975". Amazon. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Screenwriter as Star: Shaking the Shackles Laskos, Andrew. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 29 Aug 1976: k1.
  5. ^ "FORTUNE AND GLORY: Writers of Doom! Quint interviews Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz!" Aint It Cool New 23 May 2014 accessed 23 April 2015
  6. ^ "Burt Reynolds Goes Two-for-Two on Xmas". Video Junkie. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  7. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.
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