This movie has a good central idea- some spoilt kids (James Fox, John Alderton) of a rich man (James Mason) decide to rob dad, and hire a tough American (James Coburn), who winds up sleeping with the girl (Susannah York) of one of them.
It has gorgeous photography, neat location work, fab costumes, and is very groovy. It's all played for comedy though. -I think that was a mistake. It needed to have real stakes - Mason should've been really dangerous, ditto Fox. People should've died.
Also I think there needed to be more difference between Coburn and the Brits. Fox is such a great decadent aristocrat, York an ideal smashing bird and Alderton a good idiot - Coburn should be this gruff, tough Yank but he's a hippy (looking handsome it has to be said).
There's a final twist where York is in cahoots with Mason but it's not much of a twist. Everyone needed a twist.
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