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Strictly Business

7.4 84 mins Comedy   1963
Mosfilm   Experimental Comedy Film Studio  
Director(s): Leonid Gaidai

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.

Casts of Strictly Business

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 Uralsky

as train stoker (story «The Roads We Take»)

Lev Lobov

as guard on the mail train (story «The Roads We Take»)

Yuri 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 - Sam's partner (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief»)

Sergei Tikhonov

as Johnny Dorset - «Redskins Chief» (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief»)

Georgi Millyar

as Ebenezer Dorset - Joni's daddy (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief»)

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