Much as I would love to visit NYC in 1971 (loathing the glassy, gated community it is today), this cool documentary shows that it was truly a brutal, even ugly, place. "Klute" does capture this, but with the rougher edges rubbed down.
Oh wow! What a find…thanks for posting this. One of my favorite movies of the ‘70s. Bought. …so much so that I bought copy of the movie, hoping for some extras like this (there weren’t any)…so again THANK YOU❤
NY in the 70s makes Auckland New Zealand feel like a small town...let that sink in - I remember coming to the UK in 1993, surrounded by people at one point, and feeling very disorientated (mainly because of jet lag) just because I couldn't "see" the street for the people...
This is the closest thing we have to a time machine. I look seeing the New York of the past. This was of course during the apex of the 70’s crime wave & the era urban blight & decay which was exacerbated by the crack & AIDS epidemic. I’m a born & bred New Yorker so I’m biased but New York is one of the most incredible cities. I’m from the suburbs of Long Island just outside of Queens. I’ve been in the worst of the worst neighborhoods & while I’ve had shady incidents I haven’t been so anxious or fearful. It’s not like it is in the movies. Of course I saw open air drug markets & prostitutes out on the street when it was lawless in some places in the mid-90’s. Of course, the late 90’s until the mid-2010’s New York was as clean & as safe as it has ever been. It was shocking too because for part of this period I was in the Army. I didn’t witness the gradual improvement. I returned home to a fully restored NYC & drove around in awe. I wondered where all the criminals went & how it just seemed like criminals were actually scared of committing crimes. Now that’s changes. We have trashed streets filled with garbage & people selling stolen goods. Open air drug markets & hookers walking the street have returned. I’m all for keeping some non-violent offenders out of prison but just like they overreacted to crime in the 80’s-90’s with draconian punishments, they’ve overreacted again but the opposite way. They are feckless know even enablers. They’ve undermined & demonized police & the DAs are selectively enforcing laws if at all. It’s funny hearing the perspective of two actors who were famous & wealthy even back then. Of course it’s going to be a shock moving from Beverly Hills to Harlem - they are different worlds. They frame their generalizations as if they are some profound nuggets of wisdom when they are just reductive statements. This is gold though as you get to see parts of NYC in the 70’s. Some of it still looks the same & has changed little while some areas can be totally changed & completely different.
I saw this film in 1972: I was bored to death. To this day I carry a lot of deep-seated anger and resentment due to my reaction. The film stinks. I only regret that decades of therapy haven’t helped me. But I am decent enough to hope both Fonda and Sutherland have reunited in heaven and are resting in peace❤.
Remember when Jane's daughter was busted scoring drugs on the lower east side? She claimed it was part of a school project! Yeah, and l'm the Easter Bunny.
I've noticed that when documentary footage is shown of Jewish areas the men are always busy working. In contrast when similar footage is shown of Black Harlem the men are sloping around doing nothing except smoking or standing around on street corners.
I saw this one when it came out and all I remember is that Sutherland was a cop and Fonda a prostitute and he was looking for something and thought she could help him,
My favorite movie! What a treasure is this video! Thank you for the upload!
Loved this ...Klute is one my favorite movies from the 70s.
Thank you for posting this. Love this movie and Fonda and Sutherland in it.
My favorite film ever!
Great perfomance of Jane Fonda She is wonderful actress
Sure for a commie traitor.
absolutely loved this. I'm 32 but my God the 70s were fascinating
I am sad, RIP Donald.
Much as I would love to visit NYC in 1971 (loathing the glassy, gated community it is today), this cool documentary shows that it was truly a brutal, even ugly, place. "Klute" does capture this, but with the rougher edges rubbed down.
Thanks for uploading this.
Oh wow! What a find…thanks for posting this. One of my favorite movies of the ‘70s. Bought. …so much so that I bought copy of the movie, hoping for some extras like this (there weren’t any)…so again THANK YOU❤
One of the best movies.
The best movie
This bit is included on the VHS movie tape. I had it before DVDs took over the market.
Thanks for posting! ❤
Good Lord, the mammoth size of that camera!... How did they ever get anything done?
RIP, Donald Sutherland. Sad.
07:59 "It's a tough city, it's a tough movie, it's Klute." Badass metro-tag!
New York City was always bound to change good or bad. Happens everywhere.
5:53 She's sitting on Richard Jordan's lap there right? Was he uncredited in this?
NY in the 70s makes Auckland New Zealand feel like a small town...let that sink in - I remember coming to the UK in 1993, surrounded by people at one point, and feeling very disorientated (mainly because of jet lag) just because I couldn't "see" the street for the people...
This is the closest thing we have to a time machine. I look seeing the New York of the past. This was of course during the apex of the 70’s crime wave & the era urban blight & decay which was exacerbated by the crack & AIDS epidemic.
I’m a born & bred New Yorker so I’m biased but New York is one of the most incredible cities. I’m from the suburbs of Long Island just outside of Queens. I’ve been in the worst of the worst neighborhoods & while I’ve had shady incidents I haven’t been so anxious or fearful. It’s not like it is in the movies. Of course I saw open air drug markets & prostitutes out on the street when it was lawless in some places in the mid-90’s.
Of course, the late 90’s until the mid-2010’s New York was as clean & as safe as it has ever been. It was shocking too because for part of this period I was in the Army. I didn’t witness the gradual improvement. I returned home to a fully restored NYC & drove around in awe. I wondered where all the criminals went & how it just seemed like criminals were actually scared of committing crimes.
Now that’s changes. We have trashed streets filled with garbage & people selling stolen goods. Open air drug markets & hookers walking the street have returned. I’m all for keeping some non-violent offenders out of prison but just like they overreacted to crime in the 80’s-90’s with draconian punishments, they’ve overreacted again but the opposite way. They are feckless know even enablers. They’ve undermined & demonized police & the DAs are selectively enforcing laws if at all.
It’s funny hearing the perspective of two actors who were famous & wealthy even back then. Of course it’s going to be a shock moving from Beverly Hills to Harlem - they are different worlds. They frame their generalizations as if they are some profound nuggets of wisdom when they are just reductive statements.
This is gold though as you get to see parts of NYC in the 70’s. Some of it still looks the same & has changed little while some areas can be totally changed & completely different.
I saw this film in 1972: I was bored to death. To this day I carry a lot of deep-seated anger and resentment due to my reaction. The film stinks.
I only regret that decades of therapy haven’t helped me. But I am decent enough to hope both Fonda and Sutherland have reunited in heaven and are resting in peace❤.
@@rubenoteiza9261 He writes about decades of therapy...so I guess he is on drugs the whole day long.
@@rubenoteiza9261 Is life just too hard for you?
TRES Cool
When I think of Klute I think of the chess-playing char in Blake's 7
RIP Donald Sutherland
Remember when Jane's daughter was busted scoring drugs on the lower east side? She claimed it was part of a school project! Yeah, and l'm the Easter Bunny.
I've noticed that when documentary footage is shown of Jewish areas the men are always busy working. In contrast when similar footage is shown of Black Harlem the men are sloping around doing nothing except smoking or standing around on street corners.
I saw this one when it came out and all I remember is that Sutherland was a cop and Fonda a prostitute and he was looking for something and thought she could help him,
Fonda and Sutherland are appalled by how NYC changed in a decade without considering how their leftist politics changed it.
I guess we need more fuckwad MAGA here...
Only an American would think their politics were left. In most of the world they’d be considered mainstream.
Reagan destroyed America
@@dpbusby That explains the state of the world. BTW Europe is starting to reject woke and America is quickly following.
@@dpbusbyif you hear from the real left, they'd be branded armchair activists.