Strictly Business (1963)
Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson’s stallion, he’s ambushed and killed by “Shark” Dodson, who seizes the entire loot. (2) A thief slips through a third-floor window to steal a stack of bills from a sleeping gentleman’s dressing table. When the homeowner awakens and raises only one hand against the revolver—his other immobilized by a sudden rheumatic attack—the would-be robber reconsiders his plan. (3) Sam and Bill, two small-time grifters short $2,000 for their swindle, decide to kidnap Ebeneger Dorset’s young son. They demand exactly that sum as ransom, setting in motion a desperate bargain.
Director:
Leonid Gaidai
Writer:
Leonid Gaidai
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Vladlen Paulus as «Shark» Dodson (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Aleksandr Shvorin as Bob Tidball (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Viktor Gromov as Mr. Williams (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Vladimir Pitsek as train driver (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Viktor Uralsky as train stoker (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Lev Lobov as guard on the mail train (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Yuri Chulyukin as Peabody - clerk (story «The Roads We Take») |
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Rostislav Plyatt as landlord (story «Makes the Whole World Kin») |
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Yuriy Nikulin as thief (story «Makes the Whole World Kin») |
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Georgiy Vitsin as Sam - fraud (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief») |
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Aleksei Smirnov as Bill Driscoll - Sam's partner (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief») |
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Sergei Tikhonov as Johnny Dorset - «Redskins Chief» (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief») |
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Georgi Millyar as Ebenezer Dorset - Joni's daddy (story «The Ransom of Redskins Chief») |
| Directing | Leonid Gaidai | Director |
| Writing | Leonid Gaidai | Screenplay |
| Sound | Georgiy Firtich | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Alla Abramova | Lead Editor |
| Art | Vladimir Kaplunovskiy | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lidiya Naumova | Costume Design |
| Sound | Igor Mayorov | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Nikolai Renkov | Visual Effects Camera |
| Camera | Konstantin Brovin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Emin Khachaturyan | Conductor |
| Sound | Yuriy Silantyev | Conductor |
| Writing | Yelena Skidanenko | Script Editor |
| Writing | O. Henry | Short Story |
| Directing | A. Vanichkin | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Varvara Sevastyanova | Assistant Director |
| Production | Viktor Slonimskiy | Executive Producer |
| Production | Vladimir Ageev | Executive Producer |
| Art | Evgeniy Korablyov | Set Designer |
| Visual Effects | Boris Noskov | VFX Artist |
