Two grifters inadvertently come into contact with each other when one pair (BARBARA HARRIS, BRUCE DERN) is on assignment to find a missing heir and their detective work leads them to two other more deadly serious grifters (WILLIAM DEVANE, KAREN BLACK) who are jewel thieves and kidnappers.
That's about the basic plot premise of this Alfred Hitchcock comedy-thriller which never quite gels. None of the leads have the charisma to carry a film and--it being Hitchcock's last when he was in ill health--you have to wonder whether the master himself was simply not up to the job.
It's a mixed bag of plot elements thrown together with comic moments and occasional bits of suspense, but none of it is anything you're going to remember after seeing the plot unwind, unlike other Hitchcock films that stay with you for a long while.
Unless you must see every Hitchcock film, this one can rest in its vault where it belongs in a plot of its own gathering dust.
That's about the basic plot premise of this Alfred Hitchcock comedy-thriller which never quite gels. None of the leads have the charisma to carry a film and--it being Hitchcock's last when he was in ill health--you have to wonder whether the master himself was simply not up to the job.
It's a mixed bag of plot elements thrown together with comic moments and occasional bits of suspense, but none of it is anything you're going to remember after seeing the plot unwind, unlike other Hitchcock films that stay with you for a long while.
Unless you must see every Hitchcock film, this one can rest in its vault where it belongs in a plot of its own gathering dust.