![]() Auto relied heavily on Happy Days cast members and members of the Howard Family to round out the cast and crew, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but could be a bit distracting at times. Regardless of where it falls, Night Shift is a surprisingly hilarious addition to Howard’s early canon. He was also doing this really weird thing called “acting” on occasion. Howard did direct a string of TV movies in the interim ( Cotton Candy, Skyward, and Through the Magic Pyramid) and had directed a few shorts prior to Auto, so it wasn’t like Night Shift was only the second time he touched a camera. Outside of that complaint, the audio and video quality are top-notch, which is the Warner Brothers/Warner Archive standard.The upgrade in quality from Ron Howard’s directorial debut Grand Theft Auto to his sophomore effort Night Shift is pretty remarkable. No hissing or crackles were detected.Īdmittedly, it would have been nice to have interviews with the cast and crew, and maybe Warner tried to no avail, but this is a film that would have been an even better release with some cool supplements. The audio clearly supports the era-specific music and other noises. This is simply a wonderful presentation by Warner Archive.įor the audio, Warner has used an English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 soundtrack which is perfectly fine with the dialogue, music by the various artists, screams and other action noises coming in clear. Be it the clothing or various locations around the city, the color palette and details to the scenery are sharp with rich textures, inky black and great shadow detail. Details look about as sharp as they can be. Warner Archive releases Night Shift on Blu-ray and it looks spectacular with rich, deep colors. I know he’s been in many films, but he will always be Fonzie to me! The film is a great blast to the past, total eighties nonsense that’s a lot of fun! Media icon Richard Belzer plays Pig, one of the pimps! Seeing Henry Winkler outside of the cool Fonzie is a trip. Ron Howard’s brother Clint ( Evilspeak, Get Crazy) has a small role as does screen legend Joe Spinell ( Maniac, The Godfather). Watching Henry Winkler’s character evolve to someone who lets people run all over him was compelling. The actors are all spectacular, especially Michael Keaton as Bill who is way over the top. ![]() The song “Night Shift” is performed by Quaterflash. This is a charming retro-eighties style comedy film with some great tunes, such as “Talk Talk” by the band Talk Talk, “Street Talk” by Burt Bacharach and others. Everything starts out well at first, until the people who murdered Belinda’s pimp show up at the morgue where Chuck finds himself in deep, deep trouble. ![]() At first Chuck balks at such an idea but he comes around. After Chuck’s neighbor Belinda Keaton (Shelley Long, Cheers, Caveman) lost her pimp (he was murdered) and sees how she is struggling without one, Bill comes up with an idea to turn the morgue into a pimp office, where they will earn far less than an actual pimp and give Belinda and her friends more money for the work that they do. ![]() Enter Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton, Batman) an eclectic idea man as he calls himself, who turns the morgue upside down. Henry Winkler stars as Chuck Lumley, a nerdy, quiet, recluse person who is forced to take the night shift at a morgue that he works at. Winkler is anything but “The Fonz” in Night Shift! Maybe it’s just me, but there is an interesting dynamic having one Happy Days star direct another. Night Shift is a 1982 comedy film directed by Happy Days icon Ron Howard and stars Henry Winkler (Fonzie, also from Happy Days) along with Michael Keaton and Shelley Long in her first film. ![]()
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