''It Takes All Kinds'' is a 1969 Australian crime drama film directed by
Eddie Davis.
Plot
American sailor Tony Gunther is asked by Laura Ring to help steal a stained-glass window from a museum. The robbery is a success but then Laura disappears with the window. Tony finds her and she's discovered with crime lord Orville Benton. Benton has a collection of art treasures in the false bottom of a wheat silo. Police capture Benton and his gang but Laura dies.
Cast
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Vera Miles as Laura Ring
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Robert Lansing as Tony Gunther
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Barry Sullivan as Orville Benton
* Sid Melton as Benji
* Penny Sugg as J.P. Duncan
* Chris Christensen as Swede
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Edward Hepple as Cockney
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Tommy Dysart
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Early career
Dysart graduated from NIDA ...
as Seaman
* Alistair Smart as Ray
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Rod Mullinar
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Biography Early life
Mullinar born in Hereford, Hertfordshire, emigrated to Australia in 1966, at the urging of an Australian friend in ...
as Policeman
* Bob Haddow as Dan
* Peter Whittle as Bodyguard
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Reg Gorman as Man at airport
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Roger Ward
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as Bodyguard
* John Llewellyn as Detective
* Les Berryman
Production
The film was the first of three movies made by Reg Goldsworthy in association with Commonwealth United Corporation for the American television market. The director and leading actors were imported from Hollywood but the rest of the cast and crew were Australian.
It was shot in four weeks in March 1968. Locations were shot around Sydney and Melbourne with interiors done at Ajax Studios in Sydney.
Release
The film was poorly reviewed and was a commercial failure.
References
External links
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* {{TCMDb title, 79535
''It Takes All Kinds''at Oz Movies
1969 films
1969 crime drama films
1960s heist films
Australian crime drama films
Films directed by Eddie Davis
Australian heist films
1960s English-language films
English-language crime drama films