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The Last of Sheila ()

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A year after Sheila is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
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Christine
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Clinton Greene
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Lee
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Philip
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Anthony
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Alice Wood
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Sheila (as Yvonne Romaine)
Pierre Rosso ...
Vittorio
Serge Citon ...
Guido
Robert Rossi ...
Captain
Elaine Geisinger ...
American Wife
Elliot Geisinger ...
American Husband
Jack Pugeat ...
Silver Salesman
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Maurice Crosnier ...
Concierge (uncredited)
Martial ...
Locksmith (uncredited)

Directed by

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Herbert Ross

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Stephen Sondheim ... (written by) and
Anthony Perkins ... (written by)

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Stanley O'Toole ... executive producer
Herbert Ross ... producer (produced by)

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Billy Goldenberg

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Gerry Turpin ... director of photography

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Edward Warschilka

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Don Zimmerman ... assistant editor

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Ken Adam

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Tony Roman

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John Jarvis

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Joel Schumacher

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Mary Bredin ... hair stylist
Harry Frampton ... makeup artist
Peter Frampton ... makeup artist
Alaine Scemama ... hair stylist

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Stanko Grozdanic ... production supervisor
Malcolm Stamp ... unit manager

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Mishka Cheyko ... assistant director (as Michael Cheyko)
William C. Gerrity ... assistant director

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Barry Wilkinson ... props
Robert Tanenbaum ... movie poster artist (uncredited)

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David Dockendorf ... sound mixer
Derek Holding ... sound editor
Richard Oswald ... sound editor
Cyril Swern ... sound recordist
Dan Wallin ... re-recording mixer

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Fred Stromsoe ... stunts (uncredited)

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Derek V. Browne ... camera operator (as Derek Browne)
Jack Coggins ... gaffer
W.C. 'Chunky' Huse ... chief grip (as Chunky Huse)
Robin McDonald ... clapper loader
Michael Murchan ... rigger (as Mick Murchan)
Bob Penn ... still photographer
Eva Sereny ... still photographer

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Brian Owen-Smith ... wardrobe
Terry Young ... wardrobe
Ron Talsky ... costume designer: Raquel Welch (uncredited)

Music Department

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Harry King ... music editor
Paul Salamunovich ... choral conductor: singer
Dan Wallin ... score mixer (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Annabel Davis-Goff ... continuity

Additional Crew

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George Crawford ... stand-by supervisor
Hunt Downs ... publicist
Wayne Fitzgerald ... title designer
Nora Kaye ... production associate

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Plot Summary

Sheila Green (Yvonne Romain) is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while walking home from a party one night. A year later, her multi-millionaire husband, Clinton (James Coburn), invites a group of friends (James Mason, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett, and Ian McShane) to spend a week with him on his yacht. Clinton loves to play elaborate games and he assigns everyone a secret - one is an alcoholic, another an informer and so on - that they are not to share with anyone. Every day for the next six days, they will call into a port where they will be given clues to discover one person's secret. The game takes a deadly twist when a murder takes place and it all has to do with the game they have been playing and the secrets that Clinton assigned at the outset. Written by garykmcd

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Taglines The next move is murder. [USA Theatrical] See more »
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Also Known As
  • Les Invitations dangereuses (France)
  • Sheila (Germany)
  • El fin de Sheila (Spain)
  • Kuolema astuu laivaan (Finland)
  • Epikindyni prosklisi (Greece)
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  • 120 min
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Budget $2,000,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim used to host murder mystery parlor games in Manhattan, New York during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The pair put on these occasional ruses for their friends, such as Lee Remick and George Segal. Another of their guests was producer and director Herbert Ross, who encouraged them to write a script based on this type of party. See more »
Goofs When the group lines up outside the yacht for the photo, Christine has her sunglasses on. When Clinton hangs up the photo, it shows Christine with no sunglasses. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Richard Benjamin (1973). See more »
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Quotes Clinton Green: [Gesturing to a small island not too far from his yacht] You like it?
Clinton Green: [They all look, while Clinton beams proudly] I love it. Tiny, tiny islands fascinate my ass. I've got this crazy broker in London that sends me these brochures on all the islands for sale all over the world. Little impoverished islands. A few thousand dollars cash, and you're practically king to six shepherds and their families. Or whatever. I read every word on every island. Then you know what I do? I tear them neatly in half and drop them in the wastebasket. Then I say to myself...
Christine: [interrupting] I'm still weak, Clinton, but I'm eating solid food.
Clinton Green: I say to myself, "If there's one thing I hate, it's to have my island speech interrupted."
Clinton Green: [continues] I say to myself: "No, you poor people... you don't deserve a good king like me." That's what I say!
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