Saturday Night Fever - More Than A Woman (Bee Gees)

What this video is

Saturday Night Fever (1977) arrived at the absolute apex of the American disco movement, functioning simultaneously as a sociological document of Brooklyn working-class youth culture and as the commercial engine that propelled the Bee Gees and disco itself to global dominance. The soundtrack, released 15 November 1977 on RSO Records, became one of the best-selling albums in music history — outselling all prior…

Why it matters

As a film-sourced visual document, this clip represents the gold standard of late-1970s disco-era cinema, demonstrating how the integration of Bee Gees recordings into a narrative feature film — rather than a purpose-built music video — shaped the aesthetic template for film-music synergy that…

The director

John Badham (born 25 August 1939, Luton, England) is a British-American film and television director. He replaced John G. Avildsen on Saturday Night Fever one month before principal photography began in March 1977, following conceptual disagreements with the…