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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a 1966 crime comedy-drama starring James Coburn as Eli Kotch, a prison inmate who gets out of prison (by seducing a female psychologist) and immediately breaks parole. His plan is to rob the LA Airport bank on the very day the Russian premier arrives, when the police will be, he hopes, otherwise occupied. Along the way, Eli woos girls, assembles a bunch of hooligans, assumes a string of false identities and even gets married so he can mastermind a series of smaller jobs to raise the funding for his big heist.
![]() James Coburn |
Eli Kotch |
![]() Camilla Sparv |
Inger Knudsen |
![]() Aldo Ray |
Eddie Hart |
![]() Robert Webber |
Milo Stewart |
![]() Todd Armstrong |
Alfred Morgan |
The 24-year-old Harrison Ford made his film debut in a one-scene bit part as a bellhop. He was uncredited.
Milo Stewart: You have to understand that I take my orders from a slide-rule and an IBM machine.
Eddie Hart: [about the loot, following the robbery]: What I want to do now is spend it.
Eli Kotch: It all depends on what you need.
Sgt. Elmer Coxe: [on the confusion engendered by the arrival of the Russian premier]: This is nothing. You should be here when Elizabeth Taylor arrives in town.