American Gigolo (soundtrack) American Gigolo (soundtrack) American Gigolo is the soundtrack album to the 1980 movie of the same name, starring Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The music was composed and performed by Giorgio Moroder and was released worldwide on the Polydor label. It peaked at #7 in the "Billboard" 200 Album charts. All the cuts from the soundtrack also went to number two for five weeks on the disco/dance charts. "Call Me" by Blondie is the lead song for the soundtrack and was played during the film's intro. The song, which in the early stages was an instrumental demo titled "Man Machine,"
Just a Gigolo (1978 film) film "all show and no substance" and considered Bowie "completely miscast", while "Time Out" advised its readers to simply "overlook it". In an interview with "NME" in September 1980, Bowie was quoted as saying: Bowie's biographers have labelled the film "an active pain", "an unadulterated flop", and a "debacle". Its reputation among mainstream critics generally remains low, Halliwell's calling it an "international misadventure... interminable... clumsily made", while Leonard Maltin describes it as a "weird melodrama". Allmovie's Hal Erickson has nevertheless given the film a 3-star rating. "Just a Gigolo" was released to DVD in 2004. Just a Gigolo (1978 film)