Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round
Dead Heat on a MerryGoRound is a 1966 crime film written and directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Todd Armstrong, Robert Webber, Rose Marie, and Harrison Ford in his film debut as a bellhop.
In Boston, he seduces and marries Inger Knudsen Camilla Sparv, the secretary of a wealthy elderly woman. Eli sends her to L.A. to set up housekeeping, on the pretext that a songwriter there is interested in his poetry. Meanwhile, he burgles another woman Rose Marie to get the final amount of money he needs. Eli heads to L.A., where he begins to assemble his gang Severn Darden, Aldo Ray and Michael Strong for the bank robbery, which is timed to take place while the airport is distracted by the arrival of the Premier of the Soviet Union.To keep her occupied, Eli sends Inger to take Polaroid snapshots around L.A., supposedly for a magazine article he is writing. Using costumes stolen from a movie studio, he and one of the gang masquerade as an Australian policeman escorting an extradited prisoner in order to get through airport security, while the other two dress as LAPD policemen to get into the bank, bypass the alarm, and get a bank employee to open the safe. ........
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