1. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Rotten Tomatoes
Con artist Eli Kotch (James Coburn) schemes his way to parole by seducing the prison's female psychologist. Once free, he seduces many women.
Con artist Eli Kotch (James Coburn) schemes his way to parole by seducing the prison's female psychologist. Once free, he seduces many women, sometimes using disguises and accents to steal what he wants from them. With a hefty sum of stolen finances set up, he begins planning his biggest heist yet: robbing the Los Angeles International Airport bank when the Soviet Union premier arrives. But his sham marriage to the secretary (Camilla Sparv) of a millionaire may put a wrench in his plan.
2. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Confidence man Eli Kotch charms a comely prison psychologist into arranging for his parole from a California prison and picks up, for a $5,000 down payment, ...
A sophisticated crook mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank.
3. Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round (1966) - The Magnificent 60s
Feb 21, 2022 · The paroled Eli Kotch (James Coburn), who has seduced the prison psychiatrist, immediately skips town and starts fleecing any woman who falls ...
Highly entertaining woefully underrated heist picture with an impish James Coburn (Hard Contract, 1967), Swedish Camilla Sparv (Downhill Racer, 1969) in a sparkling debut and at the end an outrageo…
4. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round - Variety
James Coburn, who charms his way out of a prison into a parole via an affair with a femme psychologist (a nice trick if you know how to do it), has in mind the ...
The idea and the premise of Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is okay but it doesn't jell, and the title, a deliberate attempt to be cute, is meaningless. What leads up to the comedy-melodrama O. Henry finale most likely was very funny in the producers' minds, but much of the action is so fragmentary and episodic that there is not sufficient exposition and the treatment goes overboard in striving for effect.
5. Dead Heat On A Merry Go Round (1966) - DVD - VISTA RECORDS
Apr 7, 2012 · The movie centers around Eli Kotch, a prison inmate who charms his way out of prison thanks to a female psychologist whom Eli charms and seduces.
Ahhhh, the hip, cool, swinging 60s! Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round is a great example of what was
6. Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round (1966) – Imprint Collection #271
Eli Kotch, a captivating rogue and full-time con man, cleverly seduces an attractive psychologist while in prison to win parole. Once out, he immediately goes ...
THE SLICKEST SWINGIN'EST CON MAN WHO EVER TOOK THE WORLD FOR A RIDE!
7. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round - Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Screen icon James Coburn (Our Man Flint, A Fistful of Dynamite) stars as Eli Kotch, a captivating rogue and full-time con man in this comical crime caper.
A paroled conman co-ordinates a major bank robbery at the Los Angeles International Airport.
8. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - Letterboxd
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
9. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round - Trailers From Hell
Aug 1, 2023 · It's a low-key, non-violent puzzle picture about a perfect heist, and also a guessing game that skips from San Francisco to Denver to Boston to Los Angeles.
James Coburn’s starring film career began with projects he deemed ‘far-out’ — and writer-director Bernard Girard promptly hooked him on this eccentric thriller about an infallibly seductive con-man. It’s a low-key, non-violent puzzle picture about a perfect heist, and also a guessing game that skips from San Francisco to Denver to Boston to Los Angeles,...
10. Movie Review – DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND (1966).
Aug 7, 2009 · DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND. Columbia, 1966. James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Robert Webber, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Rose Marie, with Harrison ...
DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND. Columbia, 1966. James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Robert Webber, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Rose Marie, with Harrison Ford (uncredited). Screenwriter-director: Bernard Girard.
