Hot Millions
by Eric Till
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Actor: Bob Newhart, Karl Malden, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov, Robert MorleyDirector: Eric Till
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown), Analog; English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 1994-03-02
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
VHS Movie Reviews of Hot Millions
Movie Review: Stupid Movie
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this for a friend of mine who simply "had to have it" because of several private reasons. I found it stupid.Movie Review: Instant Coffee? In Brazil?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my all-time favorites! The most delicious thing about this movie is all the subtle touches of humor - I especially love Peter Ustinov's attempt at speaking foreign languages. Everybody does a fantastic job...the heartbreak on Patti's face when Caesar asks for a deck of cards is priceless. If you enjoy sly, well-played comedy, this is one to watch!Movie Review: Marvelous, Just Marvelous
Summary: 5 Stars
They mostly don't make films like this any more, and more's the pity.
Sir Peter Ustinov and Dame Maggie Smith have a marvellous chemistry, he as a charming embezzler/con man, she as a total disaster of a would-be "career girl".
As the film opens, Marcus Pendleton (Ustinov) is just getting out of gaol; the prison governor counsels him that he'd better go straight; computers are making it impossible to get away with his style of crime any more (that's how they got him this time), and he's getting too old for another spell in quod.
He agrees wholeheartedly.
So wholeheartedly that, determinig that Britain's foremost computer-anti-crime expert, Ceasar Smith (Robert Morley), is an avid lepidopterist, he lures him away to the Amazon on a wild butterfly chase... and takes his place, studying computers the while. (As daunting as they semed, computers were a lot less complex in those days.)
Hired by an American conglomerate as head of computer security for their British operations, he is in a perfect position to, as it were, hunt with the hounds and run with the fox.
By slipping one piece of bogus data into the computer, he lays the basis of a pyramind scheme that will net, literally, millions. (And remember, this was a time when the villains in Bond movies still hadn't learnt the word "billion".)
Enter Patty Terwilliger, living in the flat next to his, and a total disaster in terms of surviving the Real World -- as an example of the sort of disasters that invariably befall her, she gets a job as an omnibus conductor... and the 'bus drives away and leaves her behind.
He meets her, and, at first, simply wants to help her get on. He arranges her a job as his secretary, figuring that she can't have too much trouble there, right?
Did you ever see what happens when an old-fashioned carbon/film typewriter riboon escapes in the office?
Well, nothing propinks like propinquity, and soon they fall in love.
One of the American execs (Bob Newhart) has a bit of feeling for her, and a distrust of "Ceasar".
Eventualy, of course, they wind up on the run, arriving in Brazil (offering, as it does, a large amount of no extradition treaties).
The execs (Newhart and Karl Malden) come after them, to negotiate some sort of deal with "Smith".
(There are two sequences at Brazlian Customs, featuring Cesar Romero in a cameo appearance, that are absolutely hilarious. One involves a gladstone bag full of large-denomination notes in five or six currencies, one involves a jar of instant coffee...)
And the end is a nice little twist to give it all a happy ending.
This is a film solidly in the tradition of the "Ealing" comedies starring Alec Guinness, particuarly "The Lavendar Hill Mob";it's veryvery funny, and it deserves to be on DVD.
Buy it anyway; i;m sure your VHS machine still works.
(I was inspired to hunt up this film and review it after reading an essay by Francois Trufautt on Max Ophul's "Lola Montez", in which he praised Ustinov highly...)
Movie Review: Priceless
Summary: 5 Stars
My best friend raved about this move to me when we were in high school, and when I finally had a chance to see it, I fell completely in love. It's not an exaggeration to say that I base friendships on whether people love this movie. If someone doesn't appreciate "Hot Millions," they are to be spurned forthwith.There have seldom been two actors as charming as Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith; together, they push the charm quotient through the stratosphere. Whether prattling about curry ("It's vile, i'n't it?") or realizing how lonely they are (and how to solve that problem) they are astonishing. They seem to have been born from the head of the same muse - in their timing and relation to each other they're like the most comfortable of old vaudeville partners. The freeze-frame close-up of Ustinov at the end and his sweetly concerned "Are you all right?" is one of the most lovely, moving things of its kind - almost on a par with Chaplin at the end of "City Lights."
Even the redoubtable Karl Malden gives a nice little performance here; the scene between him and Caesar Romero in Brazil is an absolute gem. And Bob Newhart is marvelously snide as the fly in Ustinov's ointment - not quite Iago, maybe, but we all know the type.
This is a movie so filled with little pleasures and wonderfully askew comic sequences playing off each other that it seems like a classic in the vein of Lubitsch and Wilder ... especially now, with the state of our movie comedy no laughing matter.
When, o when, will this darling film be made available - in widescreen - on DVD?
Movie Review: A Little-known Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a gem of a caper film, with fantastic performances by Peter Ustinov and a very young Maggie Smith. Anyone who liked Alec Guinness in the "Lavender Hill Mob" should also like this one, and Ustinov's role is similarly understated and brilliant. Bob Newhart and Karl Malden also have a great parts as bank employees, putty in Ustinov's fingers.Besides the caper/con theme, this movie also touches on early computerization. How fun to see Ustinov's character grapple with the new technology of those giant old computers, and give the "expert" (Bob Newhart) a run for his money!
Thoroughly enjoyable!
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