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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
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18 March 1967 (Denmark) moreTagline:
The slickest swingin'est con man who ever took the world for a ride!Plot:
A paroled conman co-ordinates the robbery of an L. A. Airport bank with the arrival of the Russians Premier. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won Golden Globe. moreUser Comments:
Film from the swinging '60s moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Coburn | ... | Eli Kotch |
 | Camilla Sparv | ... | Inger Knudson |
| Aldo Ray | ... | Eddie Hart |
| Nina Wayne | ... | Frieda Schmid |
| Robert Webber | ... | Milo Stewart |
| Todd Armstrong | ... | Alfred Morgan |
| Michael Strong | ... | Paul Feng |
 | Marian McCargo | ... | Dr. Marion Hague (as Marian Moses) |
| Severn Darden | ... | Miles Fisher |
| James Westerfield | ... | Jack Balter |
| Simon Scott | ... | William Anderson |
| Ben Astar | ... | Gen. Malenkoff |
| Phillip Pine | ... | George Logan (as Phillip E. Pine) |
| Michael St. Angel | ... | Capt. William Yates |
| Larry D. Mann | ... | Officer Howard (as Lawrence Mann) |
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"Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" is a fun film, especially if you remember the '60s. It looks just like a movie from the '60s too - beautiful women, casual sex, calling the cops "the fuzz," and as everyone else has mentioned, Harrison Ford as a messenger. Blink and you miss him.
James Coburn plays a man of many names and professions who needs to raise $90,000 to buy building plans of a bank next to the airport so that he can commit a robbery. He gets it by seducing women, making copies of their keys, and then robbing them. Once he has the plans, he and his cronies decide to rob the bank the day the Soviet premier is due at the airport.
This film really held my interest, and it had some very tense moments toward the end of the film. James Coburn does a wonderful job in the lead, and there's nice acting in a supporting role by Robert Webber as the self-important head of the security force at the airport. Camilla Sparv, as one of Coburn's women, received some big publicity in the '60s, but her U.S. career never went anywhere.
Great twist ending. Baby boomers will get a kick out of this one.