In black and white “Nickelodeon” is obviously more true to its subject, and it has unexpected emotional effects as well. Many viewers found the film too broadly farcical in its first act and too darkly melancholic in its last, when the men’s friendship is tested by their mutual attraction to a wide-eyed young actress, Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock, a last-minute substitute for Cybill Shepherd, Mr. The story follows two men from different backgrounds, Ryan O’Neal as Leo Harrigan, a Chicago lawyer who becomes a writer and director, and Burt Reynolds as Buck Greenway, a Florida pitchman who becomes a star. Bogdanovich’s black-and-white films, “The Last Picture Show” (1971) and “Paper Moon” (1973), had been commercial and critical successes, monochrome was increasingly frowned upon by the studios.Įven in color, though, “Nickelodeon” found little favor. Bogdanovich’s interviews with pioneering directors like Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh. Bogdanovich’s original choice for “Nickelodeon,” a comedy about the early days of American filmmaking that drew on Mr. The director’s cut is indeed a few minutes longer than the theatrical version (both are included on the new disc from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), but more conspicuously it’s a black-and-white edition of a film originally released in color.īlack and white had been Mr.
For the DVD release of his 1976 “Nickelodeon,” Peter Bogdanovich has done something different. The words “director’s cut” on the cover of a DVD usually mean a few more minutes of gags too coarse to make the R-rated version shown in theaters.
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