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You Can't Win 'Em All

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Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, and Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
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During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
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  • Director
    • Peter Collinson
  • Writer
    • Leo Gordon
  • Stars
    • Tony Curtis
    • Charles Bronson
    • Michèle Mercier
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  • Director
    • Peter Collinson
  • Writer
    • Leo Gordon
  • Stars
    • Tony Curtis
    • Charles Bronson
    • Michèle Mercier
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    • 20User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Charles Bronson and Tony Curtis in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Charles Bronson and Tony Curtis in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, and Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, and Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, and Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
    Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, and Michèle Mercier in You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)

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    Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis
    • Adam Dyeras Adam Dyer
    Charles Bronson
    Charles Bronson
    • Josh Coreyas Josh Corey
    Michèle Mercier
    Michèle Mercier
    • Ailaas Aila
    Patrick Magee
    Patrick Magee
    • The General - Ataturkas The General - Ataturk
    Fikret Hakan
    Fikret Hakan
    • Colonel Elcias Colonel Elci
    Grégoire Aslan
    Grégoire Aslan
    • Osman Beyas Osman Bey
    • (as Gregoire Aslan)
    Leo Gordon
    Leo Gordon
    • Bolekas Bolek
    John Alderson
    • U.S. Army Majoras U.S. Army Major
    Tony Bonner
    Tony Bonner
    • Reeseas Reese
    Horst Janson
    Horst Janson
    • Wollenas Wollen
    John Acheson
    • Davisas Davis
    Howard Goorney
    Salih Güney
    Salih Güney
    • Capt. Enveras Capt. Enver
    • (as Salih Guney)
    Yüksel Gözen
    • Papadopoulosas Papadopoulos
    • (as Yuksel Gozen)
    Erol Keskin
    Erol Keskin
      Ken Buckle
      Henia Halil
      • Madamas Madam
      • (as Gonia Halil)
      Terry Yorke
        • Director
          • Peter Collinson
        • Writer
          • Leo Gordon
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        • Trivia
          Because of some fictitious historical events, the film was banned and never released in Turkey. After 43 years, on 26 May 2013, a digital TV platform broadcasted the movie for the first time ever.
        • Goofs
          The movie is set in 1922, but a contemporary Canadian flag appears on the wall in the tavern. In 1970, when the film was made, the Canadian flag shown had only existed for five years.
        • Crazy credits
          Opening credits prologue: THE AEGEAN SEA 1922
        • Connections
          Featured in Kain's Quest: The Stone Killer (2015)
        • Soundtracks
          Main Title Theme
          Bert Kaempfert and Herbert Rehbein

          Performed by Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra (uncredited)

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        4/10
        The Persuaders
        You Can't Win Them All was directed by Peter Collinson who made the landmark British heist thriller, The Italian Job.

        Here Charles Bronson (Josh Corey) and Tony Curtis (Adam Dyer) play two soldiers of fortune who get together after Bronson finds Curtis stranded in the sea and soon constantly try to double cross each other as they see themselves as rivals.

        The film is set in 1922 Turkey as the country is undergoing revolution internally and war with its neighbours and the two protagonists see this as an opportunity to make money. They join together and get hired by a local governor for a mission to transport his three daughters and some gold which leads to lots of devious shenanigans along the way.

        Bronson and Curtis make a likable pair and work well together. Curtis is positive, amiable and a joker whereas Bronson is meaner, more calculating and colder.

        There is some gorgeous Turkish location photography but the film is too stop and start and never truly gets going or engages. There is too much bickering and mutual distrust between Curtis and Bronson which stalls the film at the beginning and then only much later on we get the action sequences which are very well staged but feels like too little or two late

        Some of the dialogue is jarring and the politics of the region is not easy to understand but it's an interesting misfire.
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        • Release date
          • July 24, 1970 (United States)
        • Countries of origin
          • United Kingdom
          • United States
        • Language
          • English
        • Also known as
          • The Dubious Patriots
        • Filming locations
          • Said Halim Pasha Manor, Turkey
        • Production companies
          • Columbia Pictures
          • SRO
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 37 minutes
        • Aspect ratio
          • 2.35 : 1

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