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Release year: 1961

Storyline

A navy lieutenant and his civilian friend use a classified computer to help them break the bank at a Venetian casino.

Top credits

Directors

Richard Thorpe

Writers

Cast

Steve McQueen — Lt. Ferguson 'Fergie' Howard
Brigid Bazlen — Julie Fitch
Jim Hutton — Jason Eldridge
Paula Prentiss — Pam Dunstan

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Did you know

• Steve 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."

• When the Russian Consul, berating his code-breakers and underlings, begins hitting the desk with his shoe, this is a humorous reference to Russian leader Nikita Kruschev's actions at the United Nations in October of the previous year (1960), when Kruschev banged the rostrum with his shoe in anger at statements made by the Filipino delegation.

• The play "The Golden Fleecing" upon which this film is based opened on Broadway the the Henry Miller's Theatre, 124 W. 43rd St., on October 15, 1959 and ran for 84 performances until December 26, 1959.