Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by David Lowell Rich
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(VHS, 20th Century Fox Video)
Alan Arkin plays a street bum on the streets of San Francisco. One day while hustling watches outside of a waterfront transit terminal, a briefcase falls from a window and lands near one-woman band performer Carol Burnett. She hides it in her drum and takes it home, but Arkin also lays claim to it. They open it up and discover secret government papers. They try to blackmail the original owner but encounter aggressive government agents at his hotel. They try to arrange a more complex exchange, leading to chaos at an art carnival in the park. The film has a mostly unjustified bad reputation. Arkin is fine as the down and out bum trying to make a better life, falling in love with Burnett, trying to do the same. Their chemistry carries the film. San Francisco locations also help.
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