the plot is great, goldie is adorable, warren is badass, and the filming is spectacular. it's cool when the women are dancing infront of the dollars. quincy/little richards' music is amazing. warren rules...
go go go
Yeah, this flim rocks I love looking at it three times a year.
Just a cool heist film cool sounds
This movie came on my tv right after Goldfinger. What a weird era that was for cinema. I have seen so much weird stuff from abt 65-75 lately. Weird. The gritty Hamburg wintriness reminded me a bit of the Newcastle in Get Carter with Michael Caine. Or even of autumnal Nice, I think it is, of DeNiro in Ronin.
Anyway, yes, what a bizarre film this is, with an interminable chase. What keeps you from constantly laughing out loud is that it seems to be filmed like a music video, with so many quick edits and jumps that you can't even start/stop to crack a grin before you have to look at something else. The funniest part is surely not Hawn's ditz, or the German guy's hilarious gravity, or Frobe's credulity; surely it is Beatty with A WHOLE MUSKOX on his head and the shiny spandex courduroy pocketless hipster pants. He must have gone through more pairs of those than the Dukes through Dodge Chargers.
I think maybe Tarantino went to school on this (like everythg else) when the German guy is getting cut up.
Well, it came on, and I watched it. Weird. I liked it, I think. Fun. Love the alt setting more than anything else.
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i would love To see this movie < I havent seen this movie
shareBRILLIANT MOVIE. TOO ahead of it's time. Beatty. Hawn, wonderful. Richard Brooks was a great Screenwriter, Director.
shareThis is a very entertaining film, but I thought it was a bit long and couldn't decide whether it was a romantic comedy or thriller. It was a staple on network TV in the '70s, but it's fallen into relative obscurity since. Both Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn have made better films, but they're also made much worse.
share"...couldn't decide whether it was a romantic comedy or thriller.": Seriously, WarpedRecord? You sound like an intelligent and discriminating fellow--Please tell me it was some kind of involuntary brain spasm that made you lapse into this ludicrous "critic-speak" and that such criteria don't really play a role in your ultimate judgement of the quality of a movie.
Besides...everybody knows it was a "caper movie."
Saw this for the first time back in the 90's. Pretty good heist movie. Goldie Hawn is smoking too. : )
shareIt was a staple on network TV in the '70s only it missed the night club scenes of course on TV
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great, albeit strange movie, the pacing is such could only have been made in the 70's
shareThis is an impressively well-made and wildly entertaining film. A great piece of 1970s cinema.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
Just saw this on the MOVIES channel last night, and was not only surprised at how actually very good and entertaining it was, I'm surprised that I've never really heard of it. It's right up there with other classic heist films of the '70s---like THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, THE HOT ROCK, THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE, TWO, THREE, CHARLEY VARRICK, and THE ANDERSON TAPES. Glad I saw it. A real top-of-the-line heist flick, and it was interesting to see Goldie Hawn in this type of film before her ascent to major comedy stardom.Always fun to see Warrn Beatty as the scheming one behind the whole heist,and the whole cast (including Scoot Brady,Robert Webber as the crazy attorney, and the German dude after the main couple were excellent.)
shareSome places like OTA Cozi channel calling it The Heist.
Searched IMDb for The Heist and only get Heist or The Maiden Heist. Needed to use Goldie and find her 1971 listing to get $ to appear.
Not sure how they titled it on DVD though guess went with $. Maybe though $ is a difficult title for some lists since not too conventional so gets lost or buried at bottom? Might be why it hasn't caught on more.
Perhaps more showings as The Heist will widen appeal.