Lucky Lady

Lucky Lady

Theatrical poster by Richard Amsel
Directed by Stanley Donen
Produced by Michael Gruskoff
Written by Willard Huyck
Gloria Katz
Starring Gene Hackman
Liza Minnelli
Burt Reynolds
Music by Ralph Burns
Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth
Edited by Peter Boita
Production
company
Gruskoff/Venture Films
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
 December 25, 1975 (1975-12-25)
Running time
 118 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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:

Soundtrack

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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