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A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.

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Jack Washington
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Ned Pine
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Mrs. Pine
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Lewis Gannet
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Nikki Pine
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Pucci
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The Greek
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Jewelry Dealer
Ralph Smiley ...
Mr. Amin
Joni Webster ...
Miss Karali
Lyn Peters ...
The Interviewer
Asher Dann ...
Spanish Sailor
Peter Camlin ...
Croupier
Frank Delfino ...
Croupier's Assistant
Francisco Ortega ...
First Spanish Man
Vic Dunlop ...
Second Spanish Man
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Tiger Joe Marsh ...
Yoshiro
Peter Pascal ...
Helicopter Pilot
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Waiter
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Jackie Coogan Jr. ...
Job Interviewee (uncredited)

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William Hale

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Gene R. Kearney ... () (as Gene Kearney)

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Jack Laird ... producer

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Lalo Schifrin

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Bud Thackery

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Douglas Stewart

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Richard Belding ... supervising editor (as Richard A. Belding)
Robert Brower ... color coordinator

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Tom Jennings

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Henry Larrecq

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John McCarthy Jr. ... (as John McCarthy)
Perry Murdock

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Helen Colvig

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Larry Germain ... hair stylist
Bud Westmore ... makeup artist

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Ben Bishop ... unit manager

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Frank Losee ... assistant director

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Melvin M. Metcalfe Sr. ... sound

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Stanley Wilson ... music supervisor
Ray Brown ... musician: acoustic double bass (uncredited)
Don Ellis ... musician: trumpet (uncredited)
Shelly Manne ... musician: drums (uncredited)
Tony Ortega ... musician: alto sax (uncredited)
Lalo Schifrin ... conductor (uncredited) / score arranger (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

American Jack Washington is hiding in Paris under an assumed name. He also sports a beard to hide his facial traits. One day he finds a job ad in the local paper. The agency interviewing him is a front for a secret organization hired to find him. At the job interview, the interviewers guess his real identity and tell him that he is accepted for the post. The job itself is that of a male companion for billionaire Lewis Gannet who lives in a castle in the Alps at the Swiss-Italian border. Jack is taken there by helicopter and is uneasy about his employer's abode which looks like a fortress, complete with armed uniformed guards, guard dogs and hi-tech security. Lewis Gannet recognizes that his new hire is in fact Jack Washington and invites him to a briefing room where he requests that Jack tells him the whole story of how Jack got involved with the family of millionaire Ned Pine. Jack Washington starts reminiscing about how he used to date Nikki Pine, the spoiled daughter of the rich Pine family. Her family never approved of Jack, who was poor, awkward, lacking social skills, on top of lacking sporting abilities and professional ambitions. Nikki eventually married another man. Years later, Jack moved to Paris and there he bumped into his old flame, Nikki. By this time, Nikki was divorced and free. She invites Jack on her parents' mega-yacht, moored in Monte-Carlo, to spend the whole summer with the Pine family. Although many years have passed since Jack was dating their daughter Nikki, the Pines waste no opportunity to humiliate their guest and to remind their daughter what a looser Jack is. The father especially, Ned Pine, who happens to be a very passionate and avid sports fanatic, constantly challenges Jack to a myriad of different games and sports available right there on the courts built aboard the huge yacht. Jack obliges but he always fails to defeat Mr. Pine who cannot stand to loose any game, especially when playing against Jack. But, during his stay on the yacht with the Pine family, Jack discovers strange facts about the family and about the real purpose of the cruise on the Mediterranean Sea. Suspecting that crime is involved, Jack starts documenting the daily facts into a journal he keeps in secret, where he attaches photos he daily takes on the yacht, sketches and drawings he makes, maps, bits and pieces of information he obtains through eavesdropping or by interrogating the yacht's crew and servants. What will he discover ? Written by nufs68

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Taglines Crime and conspiracy on the bikini-splashed Riviera! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Deadly Roulette (United Kingdom)
  • L'affaire d'un tueur (France)
  • Ruleta infernal (Spain)
  • I symmoria tou Monte Carlo (Greece)
  • Cum mi-am petrecut vacanţa de vară (Romania)
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Did You Know?

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Trivia Shown in 1968 in the UK as a cinema feature under the title "Deadly Roulette". It was highly praised by critics. The film was released in a double-bill with "The Secret War Of Harry Frigg"; it retained its new British title when shown on television years later. See more »
Goofs The script writers don't seem to have done their homework. Jack tells NikKi that they seem to be traveling north along the coast of Crete in the Aegean, and that if they want to go to Istanbul, they need to "turn north". Crete is in the Mediterranean not in the Aegean, and if they're heading north along the coast of Crete they're already heading straight for Istanbul. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Death Carries a Cane (1973). See more »
Quotes Jack Washington: [repeated to self] ... the only thing I was ever better at than anyone else, was holding my breath!
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