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Hot Millions is a 1968 British caper story feature film made by MGM. It was directed by Eric Till and produced by Mildred Freed Alberg, from a collaborative screenplay by Ira Wallach and star Peter Ustinov. The music score was composed by Laurie Johnson, featuring the single "This Time" by Scottish singer Lulu.
Hot Millions: Directed by Eric Till. With Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart. Paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.
He bluffs his way into a private club, encourages a computer expert ( Robert Morley) to hunt moths in South America and masquerades as Morley to infiltrate a large computer operation. The idea is to convince the computer to mail Ustinov millions of pounds.
Released in 1968, Hot Millions reassured filmgoers that the genre of English caper comedy was still very much in vogue. Offering a mischievous take on the man versus machine conflict, Hot Millions stars Peter Ustinov as Marcus Pendleton, an embezzler busted by computers and sent to prison.
After assuming the identity of a computer whiz, Pendleton lands a corporate job and starts smuggling money into fake companies he has set up throughout...
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Oct 25, 2014 · Directed by Eric Till, This comedy caper starred Peter Ustinov,Maggie Smith and Karl Malden and features a terrific score from Laurie Johnson. ...more.
Cockney con artist Marcus Pendleton (Sir Peter Ustinov), just out of prison, replaces an insurance company's computer programmer and sends claim checks to himself in various guises at addresses all over Europe.
Hot Millions is a 1968 caper story made by MGM. It was directed by Eric Till and produced by Mildred Freed Alberg, from a collaborative screenplay by Ira Wallach and star Peter Ustinov. The music score was composed by Laurie Johnson, featuring the single "This Time" from Scottish singer Lulu.
Overview. A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer. Eric Till. Director. Peter Ustinov.
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
