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Bunny is a penniless widow who blackmails a robber into teaching her the trade. Soon the pair starts a successful crime spree, and the cops aren't turning a blind eye.Bunny is a penniless widow who blackmails a robber into teaching her the trade. Soon the pair starts a successful crime spree, and the cops aren't turning a blind eye.Bunny is a penniless widow who blackmails a robber into teaching her the trade. Soon the pair starts a successful crime spree, and the cops aren't turning a blind eye.
Karen Mae Johnson
- Lola
- (as Karen Rae Johnson)
Francis R. Cody
- Rhett
- (as Francis Cody)
Darra Lyn Tobin
- Elvira
- (as Darra Lynn Tobin)
Jose Ramirez
- Border Guard
- (as Carlos Jose Ramirez)
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- TriviaStar Bette Davis brought suit, claiming the production company censored her dialogue and destroyed the film. The lawsuit was later dropped.
- GoofsJack Cassidy, as Lt Horace Greeley, is being honored at a meeting. The sign for it says Honoring...Horace Greely (sic). Later on he is sitting at his desk with the nameplate of Horace Greeley on it.
- Quotes
Bunny O'Hare: [to Bill] I didn't rob the bank for myself. I did it for my kids. Their father died when they were very young and I've always felt doubly responsible for them.
- ConnectionsReferenced in This Is Your Life: Bette Davis (1971)
- SoundtracksRight Or Wrong - The Ballad of Bunny O'Hare
Written by Mack David & Mike Curb
Instrumental version Performed by Mike Curb
Vocal version Performed by The Mike Curb Congregation
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Some trenchant observations and a good Davis performance...not the embarrassment it was quickly labeled
An aging widow in New Mexico is left homeless after the bank forecloses on her property and tears down the house; she chances to meet a retired bank robber still on the lam and asks him to teach her to rob the bank which took her to the cleaners. Still-relevant sociological observations (occasionally cutting quite deep) played for TV-type yuks, a mixture which had professional critics groaning in 1971. Indeed, the outré bits of business involving the hold-ups are sloppy, and Jack Cassidy gives a grueling performance as a sleazy police lieutenant. Still, Bette Davis is very fine in the lead; natural, unglamorous and earthy, she's not a tough cookie nor a weeping willow--and when she chit-chats with Ernest Borgnine and her famous voice breaks mid-sentence, she's also endearing. Borgnine looks a bit incredulous at being caught in this scenario, but he doesn't embarrass himself and works well with Bette (their second picture together after 1956's "The Catered Affair"). In fact, most of the film is entertaining on a minor level, with something to say about oldsters and their financial plight. **1/2 from ****
- moonspinner55
- Sep 23, 2009
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- $900,000 (estimated)
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