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Published on Aug 8, 2017


Great Richard Harrison heist film from 1967.




Russell Grenning The star of this 1967 potboiler is Richard Harrison, now 83 (2019). After he failed to get anything more than a few tiny roles in a tiny number of US made movies, he signed a three-picture deal with American Pictures International - it certainly helped that his then wife was the daughter of the company's CEO -



and he went to Europe where he stayed for three decades making sword-and-sandal movies and, when they faded in popularity, he transferred to the so-called genre of "Eurospy" playing an assortment of characters who were all similar and all very poor imitations of a James Bond type. His career continued to decline to the extent that he couldn't even get work on European B grade movies so he shifted to the Philippines and Hong Kong when he was reduced to appearing in C grade (or, to be honest) Z grade Kung Fu films on even lower budgets.



He has no pretensions about his acting ability and career once remarking, "Perhaps my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars (1964) and recommending Clint (Eastwood) for the role. In his early days in between making movies he appeared in soft-porn beef-cake magazines aimed at a gay audience. He is the father of the namesake actor who, like father, is a pretty awful B grade actor.