Strictly Business
- Comedy
Overview
Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson’s stallion, he’s ambushed and killed by “Shark” Dodson, who seizes the entire loot. (2) A thief slips through a third-floor window to steal a stack of bills from a sleeping gentleman’s dressing table. When the homeowner awakens and raises only one hand against the revolver—his other immobilized by a sudden rheumatic attack—the would-be robber reconsiders his plan. (3) Sam and Bill, two small-time grifters short $2,000 for their swindle, decide to kidnap Ebeneger Dorset’s young son. They demand exactly that sum as ransom, setting in motion a desperate bargain.
Keywords
- 19th century
- wild west
- short film
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 27, 1963
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm,Experimental Comedy Film Studio
- Cast
- Vladlen Paulus,Aleksandr Shvorin,Viktor Gromov,Vladimir Pitsek,Viktor Uralsky,Lev Lobov,Yuri Chulyukin,Rostislav Plyatt,Yuriy Nikulin,Georgiy Vitsinand 3 more
- Director
- Leonid Gaidai
- Producer
- Viktor Slonimskiy,Vladimir Ageev
- Cinematography
- Konstantin Brovin
- Music
- Georgiy Firtich
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0056982