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Midas Run

1969 film

April 30, 1969 (1969-04-30)

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Running time

106 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$1.1 million^[2]Box office$500,000^[2]

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.^[3] It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany. Location shooting took place in London, Venice, Milan and Rome.

Plot

Pedley, retiring from the British Secret Service, can't understand why he hasn't yet been knighted. He devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo, recruiting Mike Warden, a writer from America, although his real aim is to capture the elusive General Ferranti.

Warden travels to Italy to assume control of the scheme along with Pedley's accomplice Sylvia Giroux, with whom he soon falls in love. They are arrested, but Pedley comes to their rescue just in time.

Cast

Richard Crenna as Mike Warden
Anne Heywood as Sylvia Giroux
Fred Astaire as John Pedley
Ralph Richardson as Lord Henshaw
Cesar Romero as Carlo Dodero
Adolfo Celi as General Ferranti
Maurice Denham as Charles Crittenden
John Le Mesurier as Wells
Jacques Sernas as Paul Giroux
Karl-Otto Alberty as Mark Dietrich
George Hartmann as Anton Pfeiffer
Carolyn De Fonseca as Ingeborg Pfeiffer
Aldo Bufi Landi as Carabiniere
Stanley Baugh as Pilot
Fred Astaire Jr. as Co-Pilot
Bruce Beeby as Gordon
Robert Henderson as The Dean
Roddy McDowall as Wister

Reception

The film earned rentals of $300,000 in North America and $200,000 in other countries. After all costs were deducted it recorded a loss of $1,515,000.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Midas Run at the American Film Institute Catalog
^ ^a ^b ^c "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, May 31, 1973 p 3
^ Weiler, A. H. (2008). "New York Times: Midas Run". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2008.