Richard Brooks: $ (Dollars) + Bite the Bullet
Richard Brooks
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USA, 1971, 35mm, 121m
A dynamic, fast-moving heist thriller set in Hamburg, in which a security consultant (Warren Beatty) and a call girl (Goldie Hawn) plot to rob the safe deposit boxes of three criminals. With Gert (Goldfinger) Fröbe as the bank’s manager and a great Quincy Jones score.
Followed by:
Bite the Bullet
USA, 1975, 35mm, 132m
Lining up a stellar cast—Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Candice Bergen—Brooks ponders human greed a second time in a gritty Western about a real-life 700-mile horse race across New Mexico in 1906 that tests the physical and moral limits of its contestants.