'The Resort': Five Perfect Minutes and Countless Missed Opportunities
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.
Crooks Anonymous (1963)
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
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A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Rating:NR
Genre:Comedy, Crime
Written By:Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
In Theaters:2/20/1963
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Runtime:88 minutes
Studio:Independent Artists
Cast
Ken Annakin
Director
Leslie Phillips
Fred "Captain 'Dandy' Forsdyke" Cox
Stanley Baxter
Brother R.S. Widdowes
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Senior Brother Laurence Montague
Julie Christie
Babette La Vern
James Robertson Justice
Sir Harvey Russellrod
Michael Medwin
Brother Ronnie Bassett
Pauline Jameson
Sister Prunella
Robertson Hare
Grimsdale
Raymond Huntley
Mr. Wagstaffe
Norman Rossington
Bert
Harry Fowler
Woods
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