Strictly Business (1963)
Delovye lyudi
84 min
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.
- Release date
- May 27, 1963
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Vladlen Paulus as «Shark» Dodson (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Aleksandr Shvorin as Bob Tidball (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Viktor Gromov as Mr. Williams (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Vladimir Pitsek as train driver (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Viktor Uralskiy as train stoker (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Lev Lobov as guard on the mail train (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Yuriy Chulyukin as Peabody - clerk (story «The Roads We Take»)
- Rostislav Plyatt as landlord (story «Makes the Whole World Kin»)
- Yuriy Nikulin as thief (story «Makes the Whole World Kin»)
- Georgiy Vitsin as Sam - fraud (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief»)
- Aleksei Smirnov as Bill Driscoll (segment "The Ransom of Redskins Chief")
- Georgiy Millyar as Ebenezer Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Redskins Chief")
Crew
- Leonid Gaidai · Director
- Leonid Gaidai · Writer
- O. Henry · Writer
- Georgiy Firtich · Composer
- Konstantin Brovin · Cinematographer
- Alla Abramova · Editor
- Vladimir Kaplunovskiy · Production designer