The Biggest Bundle of Them All

M-G-M. Director Ken Annakin; Producer Josef Shaftel; Screenplay Sy Salkowitz; Camera Piero Portalupi; Editor Ralph Sheldon; Music Riz Ortolani; Art Director Arrigo Equini

Vittorio De Sica
Raquel Welch
Robert Wagner
Godfrey Cambridge
Francesco Mule
Edward G. Robinson

Title refers to the theft of $5 million in platinum ingots - by a gang composed of a deported Italian mobster and four amateurs.

Screenplay by Sy Salkowitz, from an original by the producer, is amusing, although never of the belly-laugh genre, and Ken Annakin's direction is imaginative enough to maintain a light mood. Yarn has a set of characters which fit nicely into the action.

What appeals most is the general ineptitude of the would-be criminals as they seek to rob the train bearing the ingots. In need of $3,000 to buy proper equipment for the caper, all their plans go wrong.

Vittorio De Sica pumps plenty of heart and humor into his role of the erstwhile Chicago mobster who attends the funeral in Naples of a Chi comrade-in-arms and finds himself kidnapped by four strangers, headed by American Robert Wagner.

Wagner handles himself satisfactorily, and Raquel Welch is his voluptuous girl-friend, still playing bikini queen.

(Color) Widescreen. Extract of a review from 1968. Running time: 105 MIN.

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