Midas Run
Cast & Crew
Alf Kjellin
Richard Crenna
Anne Heywood
Roddy Mcdowall
Ralph Richardson
Cesar Romero
Film Details
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Synopsis
Veteran British secret service officer John Pedley, irritated that he has never been knighted, decides to hijack a government shipment of $15 million in gold ingots being flown from Zurich to Tanzania via Italy. He contacts an American acquaintance, writer Mike Warden, who has recently lost his university position because of his pacifist political views, and lures him to Venice on the pretense of introducing him to an interested publisher; instead, Mike is introduced to Sylvia Giroux, Pedley's accomplice, and persuaded to help organize the heist. While Pedley directs the operation from London, Sylvia and Mike make the necessary arrangements in Italy: a Messerschmidt piloted by a former Luftwaffe officer will shoot down the plane carrying the gold, and ex-Fascist general Aldo Ferranti will sell the ingots after they have been smuggled to him. Pedley, who is ordered aboard the plane at the last minute by his superior, instructs the pilot to land the passengers safely when the Messerschmidt attacks. As the gold is carried away in three trucks, Pedley, whose motive for the hijacking is to capture Ferranti and thus prove his worth, quickly engineers the capture of two of the vehicles. Sylvia and Mike are arrested by Italian police as they escape in the third truck, but Pedley intervenes, claiming that Mike is his agent. After the two thieves exchange a package of ingots in return for half the compensation Pedley will receive from an insurance firm, the agent is finally invited to be knighted by the queen. Sylvia and Mike then make marriage plans.
Director
Alf Kjellin
Cast
Richard Crenna
Anne Heywood
Roddy Mcdowall
Ralph Richardson
Cesar Romero
Adolfo Celi
Maurice Denham
John Lemesurier
Aldo Bufi-landi
Fred Astaire
Jacques Sernas
Karl Otto Alberty
George Hartman
Caroline De Fonseca
Stanley Baugh
Bruce Beeby
Robert Henderson
Crew
Maria Luisa Alcaraz
Peter Allwork
Franco Antonelli
Ronald Austin
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
Don Black
Wanda Boileau
James D. Buchanan
Pino Capogrosso
Ezio Cescotti
Leon Chooluck
Claudio Cutry
Oliver Foss
Berne Giler
Berne Giler
Mirella Ginnoto
Armando Govoni
Ken Higgins
Arthur Lawson
Vernon Messenger
Luciano Palermo
Luciano Sacripanti
Selig J. Seligman
Fredric Steinkamp
Raymond Stross
Raymond Stross
Massimo Tavazzi
Ben Winkler
Karen Wookey
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Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in London, Rome, Venice, and Milan.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring May 1969
Released in United States Spring May 1969
