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The Biggest Bundle of Them All

  • Director: Ken Annakin
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Crime
  • Movie Type: Ensemble Film, Caper
  • Themes: Bumbling Cops, Nothing Goes Right, Perfect Crime
  • Main Cast: Andrea Aurelia, Paola Borboni, Calisto Calisti, Godfrey Cambridge, Carlo Croccolo, Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch
  • Release Year: 1968
  • Country: IT/US
  • Run Time: 105 minutes

Plot

Vittorio De Sica delivers a full-blown comic performance as Cesare Celli, an American gangster exiled to Italy and kidnapped by a collection of inept crooks. These incompetents are headed by Harry Price (Robert Wagner), who demands a ransom from Cesare's friends for his safe return. When none of Cesare's friends send money to rescue Cesare from the kidnappers, Cesare is outraged and concocts a scheme for a five-million-dollar platinum robbery as a way to pay Harry's gang back for their efforts and to get his revenge on a world that has ignored him. Cesare trains his collection of nincompoops for the robbery and imports the famed Professor Samuels (Edward G. Robinson) to plan the heist. After a series of problems raising the money for the robbery and obligatory bumblings by the gang, Cesare and his men are ready to proceed with the heist. But then, right before the robbery, Harry and his girlfriend, Juliana (Raquel Welch), decide to betray Cesare and abscond with the platinum themselves. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Cast

Gianna Dauro - Signora Clara; Piero Gerlini - Lt. Naldi; Davy Kaye - Davey Collins; Mickey Knox - Joe Ware; Francesco Mule - Tozzi; Edward G. Robinson - Prof.Samuels; Yvonne Sanson - Teresa; Vittorio De Sica - Cesare Celli; Alina de Simone - Uncle Carlo; Victor Spinetti - Capt.Giglio; Femi Benussi - Uncle Carlo's Bride; Ermelinda de Felice - Emma; Giulio Marchetti - Capt. Capuano; Carlo Rizzo - Maitre d'Hotel; Aldo Bufi-Landi - Capitano del Signore; Nino Musco - Chef; Roberto De Simone - Franco

Credit

Arrigo Equini - Art Director, Itala Scandariato - Costume Designer, Ken Annakin - Director, Ralph Sheldon - Editor, Riz Ortolani - Composer (Music Score), Piero Portalupe - Cinematographer, Josef Shaftel - Producer, Riccardo Aragno - Screenwriter, Sy Salkowitz - Screenwriter, Josef Shaftel - Screenwriter

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The Biggest Bundle of Them All

Promotional film poster
Directed by Ken Annakin
Produced by Josef Shaftel
Sy Stewart
Written by Sy Salkowitz
Starring Robert Wagner
Raquel Welch
Godfrey Cambridge
Davy Kaye
Francesco Mulé
Vittorio De Sica
Music by Riz Ortolani
Cinematography Piero Portalupi
Editing by Ralph Sheldon
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) 17 January 1968
Running time 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Biggest Bundle of Them All is a 1968 American crime film set in Napoli, Italy. The story is about a mobster and a novice gang of crooks who team up to steal $5 million worth of platinum ingots from a train. The film stars Robert Wagner and Raquel Welch and was directed by Ken Annakin.

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Cast

Production

The interior scenes were filmed at the Cinecittà studios in Rome.

Trivia

  • The movie was released in France as "La Bande à César"
  • The B-17 used was B-17G-85VE 44-8846 and actual WWII combat veteran aircraft. Currently being flown by the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis Museum[1]

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