Cinema: Dead Horses

ROUGH CUT

Directed by Don Siegel Screenplay by Francis Burns

Burt Reynolds, everybody's favorite Everyman, has often expressed his desire to become the Cary Grant of the '80s. Lesley-Anne Down, with her Cool Whip body and a mouth that seems always on the verge of an indecent proposal, must have been told she could be the next Grace Kelly. Don Siegel, who makes diamond-hard action movies, has always wanted to direct an elegant, light-fingered comedy like the Grant-Kelly To Catch a Thief. For all anyone knows, Ernest Borgnine wishes he were Fred Astaire. But...

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