Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
Zooey Hall
- Tony - The Kid
- (as David Hall)
Janice Heiden
- Clara
- (as Janis Heiden)
Tony Brubaker
- Burt
- (as Anthony Brubaker)
Bennie E. Dobbins
- Driver
- (as Bernie Dobbins)
Tom Anfinsen
- Dakota
- (uncredited)
Benjie Bancroft
- Gangster
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe film's alternative title, "99 and 44/100% Dead", parodies the famous Ivory Soap advertising slogan, "99 - 44/100% Pure". In Great Britain, where the soap advertisement was unknown (and where Ivory Soap was not obtainable), the film - after first retaining its American name for the initial several weeks of release - had its title hastily changed to the more mundane "Call Harry Crown"; this did nothing to improve its box-office performance.
- Quotes
Harry Crown: [to Tony the Kid, while smoking a cigar] You know, Kid, a cigar don't care who smokes it.
- Crazy creditsThe end credit show stills from the movie except for the last part which is a pop art animation still that says WHAM!
- Alternate versionsThe Fox Movie Channel version edits out 4 minutes from the film for time constraints.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Born in the USSR: Born in the USSR: 7 Up (1991)
- SoundtracksEasy, Baby
Music by Henry Mancini
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Sung by James Gilstrap (as Jim Gilstrap)
Featured review
99 and 44/100ths Percent Dead is the story of a mob war between two rival bosses, Edmond O'Brien and Bradford Dillman and the two hit men working for them, Richard Harris and Chuck Connors. The film is enjoyable but it can't seem to make up its mind whether it's a spoof of the genre or a straight out action film.
Richard Harris is hired by O'Brien to help him in his war with Dillman over the Los Angeles territory. O'Brien needs Harris bad especially since Dillman has Connors on retainer. Harris and Connors have some history with Harris leaving Chuck with a permanent reminder.
Which is in the form of a handy/dandy claw which has various attachments for whatever need you have at the moment. When I saw this in the theater back in the Seventies it was that claw I remembered. Connors who first started in films playing villains like Buck Hannessy in The Big Country went to television and became a hero in The Rifleman and Branded. Personally I always thought Connors was better as a bad guy.
Bradford Dillman though I had forgotten, his was an incredibly hammy performance as the rival gang boss. It would have been appropriate and would have succeeded if the satire that might have been intended had come off.
The film while not memorable in his career did furnish Richard Harris with a wife. Tall and leggy Ann Turkel made her second film and was billed as being 'introduced' here. The old adage about having no attachments is certainly true as the bad guys can get to Harris through Turkel and nearly succeed.
Sadly this was the farewell film for Edmond O'Brien who was another victim of Alzheimer's Disease and spent the last ten years of his life losing his career and memories thereof to that terrible curse. He could have probably done something better, but at least it was no Cuban Rebel Girl that terrible film Errol Flynn capped his career with.
99 and 44/100ths Percent Dead is still enjoyable, but could have been done a lot better by director John Frankenheimer.
Richard Harris is hired by O'Brien to help him in his war with Dillman over the Los Angeles territory. O'Brien needs Harris bad especially since Dillman has Connors on retainer. Harris and Connors have some history with Harris leaving Chuck with a permanent reminder.
Which is in the form of a handy/dandy claw which has various attachments for whatever need you have at the moment. When I saw this in the theater back in the Seventies it was that claw I remembered. Connors who first started in films playing villains like Buck Hannessy in The Big Country went to television and became a hero in The Rifleman and Branded. Personally I always thought Connors was better as a bad guy.
Bradford Dillman though I had forgotten, his was an incredibly hammy performance as the rival gang boss. It would have been appropriate and would have succeeded if the satire that might have been intended had come off.
The film while not memorable in his career did furnish Richard Harris with a wife. Tall and leggy Ann Turkel made her second film and was billed as being 'introduced' here. The old adage about having no attachments is certainly true as the bad guys can get to Harris through Turkel and nearly succeed.
Sadly this was the farewell film for Edmond O'Brien who was another victim of Alzheimer's Disease and spent the last ten years of his life losing his career and memories thereof to that terrible curse. He could have probably done something better, but at least it was no Cuban Rebel Girl that terrible film Errol Flynn capped his career with.
99 and 44/100ths Percent Dead is still enjoyable, but could have been done a lot better by director John Frankenheimer.
- bkoganbing
- Dec 30, 2011
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- Gross US & Canada
- $40,325
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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