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A few weeks back, when Bob Newhart passed away, I brought up a little-seen 1968 movie he was in, Hot Millions. It starred Peter Ustinov, who co-wrote it, and Maggie Smith. It also featured Karl Malden and Robert Morley. I haven't seen it in many decades, but remember it as being a fun comedy-caper film.
As it happens, TCM is showing it tomorrow, Wednesday, August 7! It airs at 12:30 PM Los Angeles time. So, that should be 3:30 PM in the East.
Here's the trailer.
As a bonus, TCM has another caper movie the same day -- also with Peter Ustinov, as it happens, in a co-starring role, for which he won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. In fact, all the better, it's considered one of the great, fun, caper heist movies of all time, Topkapi. Just to put that praise in perspective, so you know this isn't hyperbole, it has a 95% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The 1964 movie stars Melina Mercouri, who also famously starred in Never on Sunday, and it co-stars Maximilian Schell. Also feature Robert Morley (again, too!) and Akim Tamiroff. It was directed by Mercouri's husband Jules Dassin, who also directed Never on Sunday, as well as another great caper film (though more serious) Rififi. The film is based on a novel by the great writers of espionage thrillers Eric Ambler, perhaps most famous for A Coffin for Dimitrios, made into the movie The Mask of Dimitrios (its British title) with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
It airs on TCM at 11:30 PM Los Angles time. Or 2:30 in the morning very early on Thursday. Here's the trailer.
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