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User Rating:
5.9/10   308 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Donald E. Westlake (novel)
Robert Sabaroff (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
4 November 1968 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
"Crime is our business." more
Plot:
Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Twisty yarn. more (8 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification)

Jim Brown ... McClain

Diahann Carroll ... Ellen 'Ellie' Kennedy

Ernest Borgnine ... Bert Clinger

Julie Harris ... Gladys

Gene Hackman ... Detective Lt. Walter Brill

Jack Klugman ... Harry Kifka
Warren Oates ... Marty Gough
James Whitmore ... Herb Sutro

Donald Sutherland ... Dave Negli
Joyce Jameson ... Jenifer
Harry Hickox ... Detective
Jackie Joseph ... Jackie
Warren Vanders ... Mason
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Priscilla Ann ... Daughter (uncredited)

Thordis Brandt ... Police Clerk (uncredited)
Calvin Brown ... Guard Charlie (uncredited)
Antony Carbone ... Man (uncredited)
Dee Carroll ... Payroll Clerk (uncredited)
George Cisar ... Charlie - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
Bill Couch ... Physical Instructor (uncredited)

Howard Curtis ... Physical Instructor (uncredited)
Fabian Dean ... Police Clerk (uncredited)
Edith Evanson ... Woman in Police Station (uncredited)
Robert Foulk ... Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Roman Gabriel ... Himself - L.A. Rams Quarterback (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jose Gallegos ... Father (uncredited)
Chance Gentry ... Policeman (uncredited)
Duane Grey ... Payroll Guard (uncredited)

Chuck Hicks ... Physical Instructor (uncredited)
Jonathan Hole ... Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp ... Stadium Payroll Guard (uncredited)
John Kowal ... Guard (uncredited)
Cherie Lamour ... Teenager (uncredited)
Vanessa Lee ... Little Girl (uncredited)
Ron McCavour ... Policeman (uncredited)
Tina Menard ... Mother (uncredited)
Karen Norris ... Toy Shop Proprietress (uncredited)
John Orchard ... Guard (uncredited)
Roger Owens ... Souvenir Stand Vendor (uncredited)
Geneva Pacheco ... Concessionaire (uncredited)
Regis Parton ... Payroll Guard (uncredited)
Beverly Powers ... Clinger's Receptionist (uncredited)
Anne Randall ... Negli's Girl (uncredited)
George Robotham ... Physical Instructor (uncredited)
Barry Russo ... Maccione: Top Guard (uncredited)
Carl Saxe ... Physical Instructor (uncredited)
Orriel Smith ... Teenager (uncredited)
Bart Starr ... Himself - Green Bay Packers Quarterback (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ron Stokes ... Detective (uncredited)
Lou Whitehill ... Policeman (uncredited)
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Directed by
Gordon Flemyng 
 
Writing credits
Donald E. Westlake (novel "The Seventh") (as Richard Stark)

Robert Sabaroff (screenplay)

Produced by
Robert Chartoff .... producer
Irwin Winkler .... producer
 
Original Music by
Quincy Jones 
 
Cinematography by
Burnett Guffey 
 
Film Editing by
Rita Roland 
 
Art Direction by
George W. Davis 
Urie McCleary 
 
Set Decoration by
F. Keogh Gleason  (as Keogh Gleason)
Henry Grace 
 
Makeup Department
Sydney Guilaroff .... hair stylist
William Tuttle .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Jim Henderling .... unit production manager
Lindsley Parsons Jr. .... assistant production manager: MGM (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Al Jennings .... assistant director
Lynn Guthrie .... second assistant director (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Franklin Milton .... recording supervisor
 
Stunts
Calvin Brown .... stunt double: Jim Brown (uncredited)
Calvin Brown .... stunts (uncredited)
Bill Couch .... stunts (uncredited)
Howard Curtis .... stunts (uncredited)
Chuck Hicks .... stunts (uncredited)
Gene LeBell .... stunts (uncredited)
Regis Parton .... stunts (uncredited)
George Robotham .... stunts (uncredited)
Carl Saxe .... stunts (uncredited)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bullen - Wie lange wollt ihr leben? (West Germany) [de]
Die ganz große Kasse (West Germany) [de]
El reparto (Spain) [es]
För helvete, Mac! (Sweden) [sv]
I sei della grande rapina (Italy) [it]
Le crime, c'est notre business (France) [fr]
Razdor (Serbia) [sr]
Saalis (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
USA:91 min
Country:
Language:
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film was the very first theatrical release to receive an R rating from the then-new MPAA's film rating system. more
Quotes:
Dave Negli: Listen, Marty, the last man I killed I did it for $5000. For $85,000 I'd kill you 17 times. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Jim Brown: All American (2002) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
The Split more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Twisty yarn., 5 July 2002
6/10
Author: gridoon

Near the beginning of this film, there is a fistfight, but it's not exciting because we don't know why the two men are fighting. A little later, there is a car chase, but it's not exciting either, because we don't know who's chasing whom or why. Later still, we find out the answers to those questions, but two potentially good action scenes have been wasted. And then the movie turns into a standard heist flick....thankfully only for a while. The focus here is not on the actual heist, but more on the aftermath. And it's there that the movie finally goes in unexpected directions.

There is, for example, the bizarre scene in which a man gets off on shooting someone with a machine-gun. There is the memorable image of a white sheet that gradually "absorbs" the blood of the body that's underneath it, and red spots start appearing on it. And there some neat plot twists along the way, mostly involving a character (I won't say which) that enters the picture when you least expect him to.

If the whole movie was as good as its final 30 minutes, I'd give it one more star, but for now this gets a ** rating.

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