The Fortune (1975) Stockard Channing, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson

I first saw this movie when I was about 12.  It was the first I ever heard of the Mann Act which made it a federal crime to transport a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes". And "immoral purposes" was broadly interpreted. 

This came up in another movie, Walk on the Wild Side. Laurence Harvey is threatened with the Mann Act because he innocently escorted homeless Jane Fonda across the Texas-Louisiana border. 

I'm glad to see Matt Gaetz disgraced and I hope he's driven from office, but of all the things they could arrest him for, I don't know that I want him imprisoned on that particular charge.

In this movie, Warren Beatty has a pending divorce so he can't marry and run away with heiress Stockard Channing, so he has petty crook Jack Nicholson marry her. Beatty pretends to be her brother and the three of them run away to California.

I don't know if there's anyone you can really get behind in this thing. Jack Nicholson is somewhat sympathetic because his character is so dumb, then Warren Beatty gets some sympathy because he has to cope with him. It's nice that they start to get along better, but they start plotting something worse than expected.

California in the 1920's is represented by a few simple sets and locations. There's a scene of them flying in an early airliner, a Ford Trimotor.

Directed by Mike Nichols. 

Available on Amazon Prime.