Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a 1966 crime film written and directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn and featuring Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Todd Armstrong, Robert Webber and Rose Marie. Conman Eli Kotch charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist , but drops her at the first opportunity to move around the country, romancing women and then stealing their possessions, or those of their employers. He's made a down payment on the blueprints to a bank at Los Angeles International Airport, but needs to raise $45,000 to complete the... purchase. In Boston, he seduces and marries Inger Knudsen the secretary of a wealthy elderly woman, and sends her to L.A. to set up housekeeping, on the pretext that a songwriter there is interested in his poetry. Meanwhile he burgles another woman to get the final amount of money he needs, then heads to L.A., where he begins to assemble his gang for the bank robbery, which is timed to take place while the airport is distracted by the arrival of the Premier of the Soviet Union.
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| Release date: | 1966 |
| Directed by: | Bernard Girard |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Carter DeHaven |
| Editor: | William Lyon |
| Music by: | Stu Phillips |
| Estimated budget: | $2,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |