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From a screenplay by. James Buchanan. "Midas Run" is a vague, disconnected movie that doesn't accomplish much except the most old-fashioned love scene of the decade. Anne Heywood and Richard Crenna are in bed -- making love.
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Indeed, it is the natural ease of the film that is so...
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Midas Run: Directed by Alf Kjellin. With Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire, Ralph Richardson. A veteran Secret Service Agent from Britain hijacks a government shipment of fifteen million dollars of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Alf Kjellin
- 1969-05-15
Aug 12, 2022 · Written by Ronald Austin, James Buchanan and Berne Giler, and directed by Alf Kjellin, Midas Run tells the entertaining story of a retired secret service agent named Pedley (Fred Astaire) who hires writer Mike Warden (Richard Crenna) and Mike’s girlfriend Sylvia Giroux (Anne Heywood) to help him steal $15,000,000 in gold. However, the clever ...
The two films had identical plots – theft of millions in gold in a European country. But the difference is that the second film had some real meat in it, good acting, a terrific script and good comedy to go along with the action and crime.
A British secret service chief, Astaire masterminds a gold bullion robbery, then solves the crime himself, all in order to secure the knighthood that has so far escaped him. Crenna plays an expert...
Midas Run. PG 1969 1h 46m Action List. Reviews A British agent (Fred Astaire) recruits a professor (Richard Crenna) in a plot to hijack gold bricks from a jetliner. Read More Read Less.
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Midas Run (UK title A Run on Gold) is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Alf Kjellin and starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood and, in one of his final big-screen roles, Fred Astaire. It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany. Location shooting took place in London, Venice, Milan and Rome.
