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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a 1966 crime film written and directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Todd Armstrong, Robert Webber, and Rose Marie. Harrison Ford also appears (in his uncredited film debut) as a bellhop.
Plot.
Con man Eli Kotch (James Coburn) charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist (Marian McCargo)
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- Cast notes:
- Sparv was named "New Female Star of the Year" by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Production.
Working titles for this film were "Eli Kotch" and "The Big Noise". The actual title used, "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" appears in the film as the novel being written by Coburn's character under the pseudonym of "Henry Silverstein". "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" was later used as