Kaleidoscope (también conocida como The Bank Breaker ) es una película policial británica de 1966 dirigida por Jack Smight y protagonizada por Warren Beatty y Susannah York . [2] [3]
Después de dejar a su amante Angel McGinnis en Londres, el rico playboy Barney Lincoln irrumpe en un fabricante de naipes en Ginebra para marcar las cartas y luego procede a arruinarse en los principales casinos europeos.
Barney se reencuentra con Angel en Montecarlo, donde gana una gran cantidad de dinero, pero sus sospechas después de que él dejó Inglaterra la llevaron a consultar a su padre, un detective de Scotland Yard . Chantajea a Barney para que le ayude a atrapar a un narcotraficante llamado Harry Dominion, que es dueño de un casino y también tiene debilidad por el póquer de altas apuestas.
Fue la tercera película que Jack Smight dirigió para Warner. Smight calificó el guión como "fantástico... un poco difícil de creer, pero sin embargo es una premisa alegre y divertida mezclada con gran humor". [4]
He says producer Elliot Kastner cast Sandra Dee as the female lead mostly because Warren Beatty wanted to sleep with her. Smight said, "Though I had worked with Sandra in my first film...and had regard for her, I couldn’t conceive of her playing a role of the British girl that the script called for...So much for the producer’s wanting to protect the integrity of a fine screenplay."[4]
During preproduction in France, Kastner admitted he did not want Dee in the film. Smight asked Jack Warner if he could have Susannah York and Warner agreed; Dee was paid off.[4]
Smight says Beatty was undisciplined during filming. They would rehearse scenes but then "just as we were about to roll the camera, Warren would ask if he could try something different from what we had earlier settled upon. I wanted to be flexible in the event that what he wanted to do was better than what we had planned. Inevitably it wasn't."[4]
The soundtrack to the film was released on Warner Bros. WS-1633. It was given a short but warm review by Cash Box in the October 22, 1966 issue with the magazine picking the tracks "Angel's Theme" and "Dominion's Deal" as the better efforts.[5]
One night Stanley Myers and Barry Fantoni were at the Chi Chi club discussing the need for a song to match the intense switched on vibe of the movie. The club's resident group Romeo Z came on stage and caused the ceiling to shake. In six or seven seconds they knew they had what they wanted and some time later the group was at the recording session.[6]
The film had its world premiere on 8 September 1966 at the Warner Theatre in the West End of London.