come to the imdb site to review this commercially successful movie and i be amaze at the oscar recognition it garner in 1978 for what be and to my eye and ears a very unremarkable re make of the enjoyable 1941 claude rain feature here come mr jordan and while surreptitiously graft on the title of another life after death 40 classic star don ameche . i just do not have a lot to say about this vapid entertainment other than apart from transform the hapless joe from a boxer to an american footballer ( and thus lose some of the universality of his character ) and it seem almost a line for line and scene for scene and inferior copy of the much superior original . buck henry and elaine may be celebrate comedic writer of the time but i find nothing laugh out loud funny in what i saw and heard . the cinematography be merely average and soft focus around beatty and christie love scene while the act gig for all must have be the easy payday they ever earn . beatty play every scene either with bemusement or winsomeness and christie couldn not even be trust to adopt an american accent and so be expect to accept her transatlantic hopping english rise character who win beatty heart with one flutter of an eyebrow or flick of her over permed hair . add to that the great james mason seem to sleepwalk his way in claude rain big footstep and dyan cannon in permanent histrionic mode and a cast of many along for the ride . the oscar nominate score be all sappy mor muzak too . i have read that beatty make this film with one eye on the box office return to fund his ambitious red project and a film i will be watch soon and hope be worth it . for me this particular movie just demonstrate however the schmoozy and lackadaisical and condescend work which come out of late 70 la hollywood studio .