“{Dollars},” also referred to as “$” (and launched within the UK as “The Heist”), is a 1971 American comedy set in Hamburg, Germany, and the primary collaboration between Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty. Beatty performs Joe Collins, an American financial institution safety advisor who plans the right crime with the assistance of Daybreak Divine, a intercourse employee performed by Hawn. Due to West German banking privateness legal guidelines, criminals can retailer illicit money within the financial institution’s security deposit bins. With Daybreak’s assist, Joe steals the money from three such bins, which after all, makes the 2 of them a goal for the criminals they’ve ripped off. What follows is a sequence of chases, stunts, and double-crosses as the 2 uncommonly handsome Individuals try to flee with the cash.
“{Dollars}” is not as well-remembered as quite a lot of movies on this record, however as foolish crime comedies go, it holds up fairly properly. Beatty and Hawn are at all times a delight to observe, and this caper offers them lots to do. In fact, Hawn’s “intercourse employee with a coronary heart of gold” character is not the form of feminine lead we often root for today, however very similar to Julia Fox in “Uncut Gems,” she does fairly properly for herself by the film’s finish.