Saturday Night Fever [DVD]

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Two theatrical versions of the film were released: the original R-rated version and an edited PG-rated version in 1979. [1] [24] The song "K-Jee" was used during the dance contest with the Puerto Rican couple that competed against Tony and Stephanie. Some VHS cassettes used a more traditional Latin-style song instead. [14] The DVD restores the original recording.

Johanson, MaryAnn (May 25, 2007). "The 10 Best Movies of 1977 – Movies". Film.com. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010 . Retrieved April 11, 2011. Terrence, Sir (May 8, 2009). "Saturday Night Fever Blu-ray Review". Blu-ray.com . Retrieved November 25, 2013. In 2017, the director's cut (running 122 minutes) premiered at the TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. [29] Fathom Events hosted special screenings of this version in 2017. [30] Home media [ edit ] In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. [10] The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard 's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees—" How Deep Is Your Love", " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever"—along with Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You", all reached No. 1 in the US. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. [11] The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress in 2014 for being culturally significant. [12]

The 4K director's cut (122 minutes) was released on Blu-ray on May 2, 2017. [33] This disc includes both the director's cut and the original theatrical version, as well as the bulk of the bonus features from the prior release. Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working-class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 article by music writer Nik Cohn. Saturday Night Fever: 25th Anniversary Edition Paramount Home Video Starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney Written by Norman Wexler

Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012 . Retrieved June 6, 2010. Saturday Night Fever 1979 VHS, Latin Dancers/"K-Jee" by MSFB (Paramount Home Video)". YouTube. June 30, 2021 . Retrieved September 26, 2023. John G. Avildsen was originally hired as the film's director, but was replaced one month before principal photography by John Badham over "conceptual disagreements." [1] [15] Badham was a lesser-known director who, like his star, had mostly worked in television. His sole prior film credit, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, was released while Saturday Night Fever was already well into production. [15]When HBO acquired the pay television rights to Saturday Night Fever in 1980, both versions of the film were aired by the network: the PG version during the day, and the R version during the evening (HBO, which had primarily operated on a late afternoon-to-early overnight schedule at the time, had maintained a programming policy restricting the showing of R-rated films to the nighttime hours, a rule that continued long after it switched to a 24-hour schedule full-time in December 1981). The R-rated theatrical version premiered on the network at midnight Eastern Time on January 1, 1980. [ citation needed] Bronson, Fred (2003). "Night Fever". The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Billboard Books. p.480. ISBN 978-0823076772 . Retrieved September 26, 2023. Sanburn, Josh (December 2, 2010). "On the Floor in Saturday Night Fever". Time . Retrieved September 26, 2023.