Plot Synopsis:
Richard Crenna (Un Flic), Fred Astaire (Daddy Long Legs), Anne Heywood (The Fox), Ralph Richardson (Woman of Straw), Cesar Romero (Target: Harry), Adolfo Celi (Thunderball), John Le Mesurier (Salt and Pepper), Karl-Otto Alberty (Kelly’s Heroes) and Roddy McDowall (Lord Love a Duck) co-star in this thrilling heist comedy with beautiful on-location cinematography by Kenneth Higgins (Darling, Georgy Girl) and a rousing score by the great Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape). John Pedley (Astaire), a retired British Secret Service agent, recruits writer Mike Warden (Crenna) and devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo carrying a government shipment of $15,000,000 in gold.