Warren Beatty tries his hand at a caper film which is what Kaleidoscope should have been. Despite being teamed with Goldie Hawn the public didn't really go for it - but then they rarely did for Beatty films unless he played a lust object pursued by a vivacious woman. I think because he did not portray dynamism on screen.
It's about a bank security expert and his hooker girlfriend robbing safe deposit boxes held by crooks including Robert Webber and Scott Brady (a great late career turn for him) plus a German. Gert Frobe is a banker.
This isn't a bad movie. German setting different. Little yuck to have all these Americans ripping them off. There's a nasty German killer, mind.
The tone of this never quite works. It's not that sexy or fun despite Hawn. She's with beatty at the beginning - they're a couple - she sleeps with people. Maybe more of her would've helped. I don't find Beatty a compelling screen presence. He's fine, just not compelling.
Richard Brooks wrote and directed it. The subtext of "money" is really, really hammered in - like there's scenes in a strip club with slides showing money projected against the wall and sounds about money playing while there are silhouettes of strippers.
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