Strictly Business
1963 · directed by Leonid Gaidai
- Rating
- 75/100
- Hit
- no
Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson’s stallion, he’s ambushed and killed by “Shark” Dodson, who seizes the entire loot. (2) A thief slips through a third-floor window to steal a stack of bills from a sleeping gentleman’s dressing table. When the homeowner awakens and raises only one hand against the revolver—his other immobilized by a sudden rheumatic attack—the would-be robber reconsiders his plan. (3) Sam and Bill, two small-time grifters short $2,000 for their swindle, decide to kidnap Ebeneger Dorset’s young son. They demand exactly that sum as ransom, setting in motion a desperate bargain.
Strictly Business (1963), directed by Leonid Gaidai, rates 75/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Vladlen Paulus
- Aleksandr Shvorin
- Viktor Gromov
- Vladimir Pitsek
- Viktor Uralsky
- Lev Lobov
- Yuri Chulyukin
- Rostislav Plyatt
- Yuriy Nikulin
- Georgiy Vitsin
Crew
- Konstantin Brovin — Director of Photography
- Alla Abramova — Editor
- Georgiy Firtich — Original Music Composer
- Leonid Gaidai — Writer
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- Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973) — 81/100 · hit
- The Diamond Arm (1969) — 80/100 · hit
- Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) — 80/100 · hit
- Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) — 80/100 · hit
- 12 Chairs (1971) — 79/100
- Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961) — 78/100 · short, not counted
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