Marcus Pendleton/Caesar Smith
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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.
Oct 25, 2014 · Directed by Eric Till, This comedy caper starred Peter Ustinov,Maggie Smith and Karl Malden and features a terrific score from Laurie Johnson.''ALL CONTENT B...
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.
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 job and starts...
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Released from prison, Marcus Pendleton, an embezzler whose crime was discovered by a computer, decides to become a computer expert. He then befriends Caesar Smith, one of Britain's foremost computer authorities, and persuades him to leave the country.
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.
