A navy lieutenant and his civilian friend use a classified computer to help them break the bank at a Venetian casino.A navy lieutenant and his civilian friend use a classified computer to help them break the bank at a Venetian casino.A navy lieutenant and his civilian friend use a classified computer to help them break the bank at a Venetian casino.
- Russian Attaché
- (uncredited)
- Second Russian
- (uncredited)
- Roulette Croupier
- (uncredited)
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaSteve McQueen hated this movie even more so than "The Blob (1958)." According to a 2011 biography of McQueen, he walked out of the first public preview screening, vowing to never again work for "MGM."
- GoofsWhen Fergie and Jason are plugging in the power supply for the blinker in the Venice hotel, Jason says "110 volts in, 24 volts out". All European countries use 240 volts, not 110 volts as in the USA.
- Quotes
Lt. Fergie Howard: Beau'll join you as soon as he gets into his civvies.
Lt. Beau Gilliam: My civvies?
Lt. Fergie Howard: You brought 'em, didn't ya?
Lt. Beau Gilliam: Yeah. But I won't wear 'em, Fergie.
Lt. Fergie Howard: I beg your pardon?
Lt. Beau Gilliam: Well you saw the duty board this morning. We were specifically ordered to wear whites. Any officer caught ashore in his civvies is gonna have his tail in a sling. And the order was signed by Admiral Fitch himself.
Lt. Fergie Howard: Old Foghorn.
Jason Eldridge: Fergie, we agreed not to break any regulations we didn't have to.
Lt. Fergie Howard: Uh huh. But we have to. We can't get into the casino in Navy uniforms. It's off limits.
Lt. Beau Gilliam: Off limits? And in civvies too? I'll be breaking two regulations at once!
Lt. Fergie Howard: That's right, it's sort of a package deal. Now get in there and get out of that uniform and that's an order, Lieutenant *junior* grade Gilliam!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Discovering Film: Steve McQueen (2015)
McQueen comes up with the idea of using a high-speed electronic computer to beat the roulette wheel and enlists Hutton and another sailor into the scheme.
Hutton, as the computer scientist doesn't have much to do, since he can't also play the fast-talking con-man. (And besides, he's a computer scientist!) But he does get to woo Prentiss, who amuses as the beautiful near-sighted heiress who talks to statues.
Weston up on the ledge with the blinker makes for a quite funny interlude as the others have noted.
But McQueen does not deserve the invective heaped upon him by the other reviewers of this film.
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- The Golden Fleecing
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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