Original
Italian Title: 7 UOMINI E UN CERVELLO [7 MEN AND A BRAIN]
also known as CRIMINAL AFFAIR and CRIMINAL SYMPHONY and
GREAT ROBBERY CAPER
director: Rossano Brazzi (as Edward Ross)
starring: Ann Margret · Barbara Nichols · Helen Channel
· Rossano Brazzi · Lando Buzzanca
This
movie screams 1968 in its color, design, and style. Plus it's
got a young Ann Margret who has a difficult time keeping her clothes
on. Rossano Brazzi - the star, writer and director here - was an accomplished
actor, involved in over 200 projects before his death in 1994. He was
best known to English-speaking audiences for his role of Emile de Becque
in Rogers & Hammerstein's musical South Pacific (1958).
Reportedly, he took some of the money he made in that blockbuster and
put it into this crime caper/sex comedy. Here's the story of a master
thief who recruits a bunch of crooks to rob ostentatiously rich patrons
during the opening night of an opera [after knocking them out with an
oxygen- reducer gas pumped into the theater]. He is aided in his venture
by a beautiful, perky student from the local University.
Swedish-born
Ann Margret was discovered by George Burns in the early '60s. He helped
her secured a record deal with RCA. After her first single, 'I
Just Don't Understand' hit Billboard's Top 20 in 1961, she was
signed to an acting contract with 20th Century Fox. Numerous movies
followed (her breakout role was that of Kim McAfee in Bye Bye
Birdie, 1963) and in 1964 she played opposite Elvis Presley
for Viva Las Vegas. She began a torrid on-again-off-again
affair with Elvis, but married Roger Smith [star of the legendary TV
show 77 Sunset Strip, 1958-63] in 1968; the two are still
together today, 60 years later. She went to Italy to make this film
shortly after her career stalled in Hollywood. She stayed in Europe
to make one more movie, REBUS
with Laurence Harvey before returning to the states. After an American
TV Special and a popular Vegas Show in 1971, Ann-Margret was back on
top. Interestingly, she was now being treated like an 'actress,' being
nominated for two different Oscars over the next decade (for Carnal
Knowledge and Tommy).
An Italian film
in English language; fullscreen format (4:3), (82 minutes), DVD encoded
for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT. Extras include theatrical trailers.
Sexual Situations/Nudity/Violence
For Adult Audiences
