Ernie Kovacs stars with Cyd Charisse in this film Five Golden Hours. Those hours
in fact are the time differential between Rome and New York where Cyd Charisse's
late husband used to trade on the Stock Exchange and made a bundle with the
instant communications before Rome's trading opened. In point of fact the guy
was a con man with a Ponzi scheme.
The scheme fascinates Kovacs who has his own con games working as a professional mourner who fleeces widows out of nickels and dimes. But Cyd Charisse he falls for and who wouldn't. The problem is he's the one conned and has to do some scrambling to get away with it.
Not the best of Ernie Kovacs, for that one has to see him in his television show or in films like Operation Madball or North To Alaska. Still it has a few amusing moments and George Sanders who's never bad.
The scheme fascinates Kovacs who has his own con games working as a professional mourner who fleeces widows out of nickels and dimes. But Cyd Charisse he falls for and who wouldn't. The problem is he's the one conned and has to do some scrambling to get away with it.
Not the best of Ernie Kovacs, for that one has to see him in his television show or in films like Operation Madball or North To Alaska. Still it has a few amusing moments and George Sanders who's never bad.