The Wide Blue Road (1956), Grand Slam (1967), Swiss Miss (1938), Night Shift (1982), Carbone (2017), Finding Steve McQueen (2018), Secret of the Incas (1954), Pixie (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Get Rich Quick movies.
Storyline: A provincial fisherman (Yves Montand) angers other villagers by using dynamite illegally to expedite his catch.
Plot Keywords: adult, family, guard, fisherman, touching, melodramatic, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70.—FV
Plot Keywords: professor, safecracker, small-time crook, soldier, engineer, playboy, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt, Oliver falls in love with a chambermaid, Anna, who in reality is a famous opera singer spying on her composer husband, Victor, while he works on his new opera. The boys are assigned to move Victor's piano to a secluded tree house, but become trapped on a rickety rope bridge high above an Alpine gorge when they're met halfway across by a gorilla.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, salesman, dishwasher, composer, opera singer, chambermaid, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it's more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, mortician, businessman, stockbroker, coworker, pimp, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Plot Keywords: father-in-law, mother, brother, gangster, wife, businessman, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail money from President Richard Nixon's secret fund.
Plot Keywords: thief, fbi agent, fbi director, detective, getaway driver, cheeky, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled star burst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the ancient civilization will spring anew when the treasure is returned. The natives want it but so does Harry Steele, an American adventurer of slightly-shady ways who wants it for personal gain, as does his adversary, a grizzled old man even more into skulduggery than Steele. The latter teams up with Elena Antonescu, an Iron Curtain refugee fleeing from the MKVD. She can help him get a plane and he can help her escape Peru for the relative safety of Mexico.Is there a chance they will end up in a bickering love-hate relationship?... Is there a chance an American archaeologist, Dr. Stanley Moorehead, will come along as one corner of a romantic triangle?... Is there a chance that Yma Sumac (billed third on the posters and ads and special billed in the film), who can't act but can sing, will sing a few songs?... Is there a chance that these trite-sounding questions will develop into a film that is far from trite and vastly entertaining? Dang right, there is. Check it out.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: tour guide, assistant, archaeologist, political refugee, confident, gripping, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Plot Keywords: priest, nun, gangster, misfit, teamwork, father, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a 'get-rich-quick' scam that turns deadly.
Plot Keywords: young man, businessman, con man, shocking, crafty, los angeles, get rich quick ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fairy tale romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful bride-to-be, Connie, has actually been plotting against him.
Plot Keywords: priest, couple, adult, gold digger, touching, amusing, office ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After con artist Eddie Sullivan (Feuerstein) incurs a large debt with a local criminal ringleader, he creates a get-rich-quick scheme and enlists a sweet gentle giant named Walter (Wight) as his unwitting accomplice. Walter's orphanage -- the only home he's ever known -- also needs funds desperately. Upon overhearing Walter's predicament, Eddie convinces the no-nonsense head nun, Sister Francesca (Malick), that Walter can win the money as a fighter and pay off the church's debts. Eddie's plan: travel from town to town with Walter and enter small, unsanctioned fighting competitions for prize money Sister Francesca dispatches Mary (Hardin) as a chaperone for both Walter and the money and gives Eddie a week - and a prayer - to make it happen. During their journey across the south to the annual Pro-Am MMA tournament in New Orleans, Walter discovers what life is like outside the orphanage, while Eddie becomes morally conflicted over whether to take all the loot for himself or keep his promise to Walter, the one person he can actually call a friend.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: con artist, fighter, nun, chaperone, bookie, lighthearted, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.
Plot Keywords: antique dealer, criminal, enemy, adult, archaeologist, thrilling, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A con man named Steve Blair (Robert Preston), enlists an out-of-work, drunk writer Paul Ferris (Tony Randall) to write a fictitious screenplay he hopes will be funded by a rich, but unethical producer (who also happens to be a mobster) named Tony Dallas (Walter Matthau). As if that's not enough, Blair then plans to scam the money from Dallas, all with the beauty of a gorgeous Greek isle.—thomevans
Plot Keywords: con artist, gangster, writer, girlfriend, love interest, tourist, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Snatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully laid plans.
Plot Keywords: kidnapper, girlfriend, daughter, businessman, father, captive, tense ...
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