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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396268807
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 22054
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Product Description:
Superstars Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn both took on the mantle of Robin Hood as they set out to fleece the criminally over-privileged (drug dealers, racketeers, gamblers, etc.) of $1 million from a safe-deposit vault in Hamburg. He's a security expert, she's a hooker. Together they made a dynamite combination at the box-office.
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Goldie Hawn, freshly launched into stardom via TV's Laugh-In gives a bubbly but nuanced performance in one of her first feature-film roles, $ (also known as Dollars). She and costar Warren Beatty look so darn cute together (as they would again later in Shampoo), and have such terrific onscreen chemistry, that we forgive the writers for needlessly making Hawn's character a hooker. Still, to borrow from Working Girl, Hawn's Dawn Divine has a bod for sin--but also, it turns out, a mind for business, at least the kind of business that Beatty's tousled, charming criminal, Joe Collins, has in mind. The film is set on location in Frankfort and Bavaria, Germany, and Scandinavia, and the glorious feel of Europe in the early '70s is here in all its splendor--and grit. Collins' crime is a devilish international bank heist, complicated by language, communists, the Cold War, and next to no technology. It's a sort of a no-frills Oceans Eleven, without the 11 sidekicks.
$ can't quite decide if it's a farce or drama, but there's no question about its action chops; its chase scene is long and intense, and shot crisply and suspensefully by cinematographer Petrus R. Schlömp. The music is by Quincy Jones and is appropriately hip and rich, and Little Richard(!) sings the theme song, 'Money Is…' But the reason to watch this film is to see the great chemistry between Hawn, at the beginning of her film craft, and Beatty, nearing his own peak. And to see a snapshot of the Western world circa 1970--which is truly priceless. Extras include some mini vignettes by Sony Home Entertainment about its 'Martini Movies' series, including sly definitions of what makes a leading man ('he never lets the audience see him sweat'), how to pull off a heist, and, helpfully, several martini recipes. --A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Early 70s Heist-Chase
Dollars is a bank heist-car chase movie from the early 1970s. Shot with a low-ball urban shoe-string look and sensibility. It contains the motifs of this genre that keeps it's core audience satiated. Fast cars, daring heist, 'good guys' & bad guys with little or no morals, loose women, shady dealings, where no-body relevant to the story gives a f***. Quincy Jones (The Getaway) supplies the soundtrack, great fun, also available, somewhere. Goldie Hawn looks delicious, post-war Hamburg looks bleak, Warren Beatty is effective and not showing off in his role. The car-chase is really good, maybe the first on snow and ice & well done.
Rating:  - dollars ($)
this heist film was worth the wait of finally being brought out in DVD. not your average heist film in that they steal from the "bad" guys. very entertaining and suspenseful. if you like hitchcock and/or heist films you'll like this one. one of MY favorites. lots of good actors in it. warren beatty, goldie hawn, gert frobe, rober weber.
Rating: - Dollars
I saw this movie in the theater years ago and I was a good as I remembered.
Rating: - Some Value
A rare throw-away role for Beatty in this 70s caper that's never dull but is certainly too long. The methodical build-up to the bank heist seems to go on forever and you may lose patience by the time you get to some good action stuff towards the end. Good location settings and Warren's cool here, but it's hard to believe Goldie Hawn's shtick ever found favor with audiences. She's an idiot, childlike prostitute who's supossed to be adorable? The fact that the actress is a deft player makes it all the more depressing.
And am I missing something? Entertainment Weekly dubbed this a box office dud, but I seem to remember it having been fairly popular when I was a kid -- it was certainly a big deal when it debuted on TV.
Rating: - Stylish '71 production
[1988 Goodtimes VHS: 122 minutes].
Very strong performances by Beatty and Hawn plus an engaging soundtrack lift this hyperactive, semi-farce about international banking. They'll only rob from the rich...and give to themselves.
Beatty is a Bank Security Officer who can't stop muttering to himself no matter who is in earshot and Hawn is effective as a free-lance "Escort" who is a bit insecure in her new role as co-conspirator; she is a few years past her Laugh-In looniness and has come up with an interesting character.
This movie has traveled through the decades in a low-profile manner, which is surprising considering the successful careers of the two stars, plus Director Richard Brooks, and, of course, Quincy Jones.
The finale has some funky action on a frozen waterway, though the plot line has a certain stumbling forward momentum, nicely underscored in the early scenes by two Little Richard songs recorded in 1971 for this enterprise, "Money Is" (would have made a great movie title - seems that the powers-that-be have never decided if it's "Dollars", "The Heist", or "$$$"), and a risque rocker called "Do It - To It", both uptempo.
Richard fans, get this: these are *movie versions*, if you check out your well-worn vinyl, or the tracks revived on a 3-CD set of LR's Reprise sessions, released on Rhino Handmade.
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