North Dallas Forty | |
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Directed by | Ted Kotcheff |
Screenplay by | Peter Gent Ted Kotcheff Frank Yablans |
Based on | North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent |
Produced by | Frank Yablans |
Starring | Nick Nolte Mac Davis Charles Durning Dayle Haddon Bo Svenson John Matuszak Steve Forrest G.D. Spradlin Dabney Coleman Savannah Smith Boucher |
Cinematography | Paul Lohmann |
Edited by | Jay Kamen |
Music by | John Scott |
Production company | Regina Associates |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $26.1 million[2] |
North Dallas Forty is a 1979 American sports film starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, and G. D. Spradlin set in the decadent world of American professional football in the late 1970s. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and based on the best-selling 1973 novel by Peter Gent. The screenplay was by Kotcheff, Gent, Frank Yablans, and Nancy Dowd (uncredited). This was the first film role for Davis, a popular country music recording artist.