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Con artist Marcus Pendleton has just been released from prison for embezzlement. He has emerged into a world increasingly reliant on computers. He convinces computer programmer Caesar Smith to follow his lifelong dream of hunting moths in the Amazon Rainforest.
Hot Millions: Directed by Eric Till. With Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart. Paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. This British caper follows Marcus Pendleton (Peter Ustinov), a con man just out of prison. After assuming the identity of a computer whiz, Pendleton lands a corporate...
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Writing about "Hot Millions" in the New Republic, Stanley Kauffmann observed that it didn't make him laugh out loud, but at the end of the film he realized he'd been smiling for nearly two hours. That says it very well: "Hot Millions," which is not a hilarious comedy, is a pleasant, warm one.
Looking for an angle, he convinces Caesar Smith (Robert Morley), a noted computer whiz, to follow his life-long desire, to hunt butterflies in the Amazon. Using Caesar's résumé, he finds employment in the corporate world and begins a very large operation under the noses of his superiors.
Ira Wallach. Writer. Peter Ustinov. Writer. A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
Released in 1968, Hot Millions reassured filmgoers that the genre of English caper comedy was still very much in vogue. Offering a mischievous take on the man versus machine conflict, Hot Millions stars Peter Ustinov as Marcus Pendleton, an embezzler busted by computers and sent to prison.
