SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (DVD/WS)-NLA DVD

Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another (including "Stayin' Alive"), we watch white-suited Tony strut his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies. Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his relationship with his dance partner, Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), a secretary eager to move into the glamorous world of Manhattan. Saturday Night Fever's huge success grew meteorically thanks to the towering popularity of its soundtrack; during the first half of 1978, when the movie's disco songs saturated the singles charts up to four at a time, it was no longer clear whether the hit movie was feeding the hit songs or the hit songs were feeding the hit movie. This crossover between music and movies set the pace for many movies to come, as it also marked the rise and fall of 1970s disco culture. Two versions of this film exist: the original R-rated version and a PG version, edited down to more "family-friendly" fare and fed to the public with the tagline, "Because we want everyone to see John Travolta's performance." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast John Travolta as Tony Manero Karen Gorney as Stephanie Barry Miller as Bobby C. Joseph Cali as Joey Paul Pape as Double J. Bruce Ornstein as Gus Donna Pescow as Annette Val Bisoglio as Frank, Sr. Julie Bovasso as Flo Nina Hansen as Grandmother Lisa Peluso as Linda Sam Coppola as Fusco Denny Dillon as Doreen Bert Michaels as Pete Donald Gantry as Jay Langhart

Crew Lester Wilson - Choreography James Gambina - Consultant/advisor Jo-Jo Smith - Consultant/advisor Patrizia Von Brandenstein - Costume Designer Jennifer Nichols - Costume Designer John Badham - Director David Rawlins - Editor Kevin McCormick - Executive Producer Maurice Gibb - Composer (Music Score) Barry Robin - Composer (Music Score) The Bee Gees - Composer (Music Score) Robin Gibb - Composer (Music Score) David Shire - Composer (Music Score) Barry Gibb - Composer (Music Score) Max Herriquez - Makeup Charles Bailey - Production Designer Ralf Bode - Cinematographer Robert Stigwood - Producer Kevin McCormick - Producer John Godfrey - Set Designer John K. Wilkinson - Sound/Sound Designer Robert W. Glass, Jr. - Sound/Sound Designer John Reitz - Sound/Sound Designer Les Lazarowitz - Sound/Sound Designer Paul Nuckles - Stunts Coordinator Norman Wexler - Screenwriter The Bee Gees - Musical Performer Nik Cohn - Short Story Author

Saturday Night Fever
From the moment John Travolta strutted down a Brooklyn street to "Stayin' Alive" at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever (1977), music movies and pop culture were irrevocably changed. Unlike subsequent music blockbusters like Grease (1978) and Footloose (1984), Fever's depiction of one youth's escape at the local disco and tentative dreams for a better life in Manhattan astutely balanced galvanizing dance numbers with a gritty sense of contemporary economic malaise. Dance numbers, the Bee Gees soundtrack, and Travolta's white-suited presence, however, were the marketing hooks. With the release of Bee Gees singles timed to sell the movie and the movie becoming an ad for the soundtrack, Fever set the standard for marketing synergy several years before MTV, as the soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all-time and the film grossed over 100 million dollars. The once-underground disco movement turned into a late-'70s mainstream pop phenomenon; and TV idol Travolta, bolstered by an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, became a movie superstar and cultural emblem of the 1970s. While Travolta's career, like disco, suffered in the 1980s, his status was restored in the 1990s -- aided, no doubt, by '90s nostalgia for the '70s. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 

Barry Gibb: Golden Globe, Best Original Score (nominated) Barry Gibb: Golden Globe, Best Original Song (nominated) David Shire: Golden Globe, Best Original Score (nominated) John Travolta: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Actor (nominated) John Travolta: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com (nominated) John Travolta: National Board of Review, Best Actor (winner) Maurice Gibb: Golden Globe, Best Original Score (nominated) Maurice Gibb: Golden Globe, Best Original Song (nominated) Robin Gibb: Golden Globe, Best Original Score (nominated) Robin Gibb: Golden Globe, Best Original Song (nominated)

Golden Globe, Best Picture - Musical or Comedy (nominated) National Board of Review, Best Picture (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DDS: Dolby Digital Surround Additional Features: Commentary by director John Badham Three deleted scenes Highlights from VH1's Behind the Music DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 118 min Part of Series: Paramount Widescreen Collection   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Tony's Walk 2. Watch the Hair 3. The Faces 4. 2001 Odyssey 5. Another Married Sister 6. Al Pacino 7. Rehearsal Studio 8. Black Sheep 9. Stephanie 10. Change Partners 11. Don't Call Me Father 12. King Of The Floor 13. Can You Dig It? 14. Moving Out 15. Across The River 16. Barracuda Club 17. Dance Contest 18. The Back Seat 19. The Bridge 20. All Night Train 21. Like Friends