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Director:
Stanley Donen
Writers:
Willard Huyck (writer)
Gloria Katz (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
25 December 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trios after business hours. | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
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User Comments:
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Cast

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Gene Hackman ... Kibby Womack

Liza Minnelli ... Claire

Burt Reynolds ... Walker Ellis

Geoffrey Lewis ... Capt. Mosely
John Hillerman ... McTeague
Robby Benson ... Billy
Michael Hordern ... Capt. Rockwell
Anthony Holland ... Mr. Tully
John McLiam ... Rass Huggins

Val Avery ... Dolph
Louis Guss ... Bernie

William Bassett ... Charley
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marjorie Battles ... Redhead
Roger Cudney ... Hotel clerk

Joe Estevez ... American Kid
Emilio Fernández ... Ybarra

Basil Hoffman ... Auctioneer's assistant
Milt Kogan ... Supercargo

Ron Masak ... (voice)
Duncan McLeod ... Auctioneer
Steve Shaw ... Gunner on CG 101
Paul Stader ... McTeague henchman
Frank Tallman ... Aviator
Susanne Zenor ... Brunette
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Runtime:
118 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:16 (1976) | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Iceland:12
Filming Locations:
Circus Circus Casino - 2880 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA more
Company:
Gruskoff/Venture Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Gene Hackman replaced George Segal in the role of Kibby after a leg injury sidelined Segal. more
Quotes:
Claire: Gee, it's so quiet in here you could hear a fish fart. more
Soundtrack:
(Get) While the Getting is Good more

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Thoughts on reviewing 25 years later, 27 July 2000
Author: mission-5 from USA

Might be called "Sally Bowles Comes Home And Runs Liquor." Her character is almost a parody of her "Cabaret" role. Hackman is Buck Barrow with a comedy twist and Reynolds is perfecting that moron-suave character that he took to such heights in "At Long Last Love."

The film has the distinction of having had, if memory serves, three different endings. I saw the first in previews. A real curve ball in which the male leads get killed and Minelli is left bereft. They went back to the drawing board and the movie premiered with a tacked on scene shot much later which involved the three stars, with the tackiest of make-up jobs, rolling around in a bed in their "elderly" years. From what I can tell by watching it recently, they dropped that entirely and simply cut together some outtakes which they ran under the credits which give us the impression that everybody ended up okay.

There was also this mid-70's technique of film "flashing" which involved pre-exposing the stock to give the film a lighter, airier look. Taken to ridiculous extremes here, it almost looks as if someone just scratched up the lens faces with a Brillo pad.

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