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Hot Money (1983)

Directed by Zale Magder

Overview

Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow’s house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady’s money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?

Length 78 minutes

Actors

Orson Welles | Michael Murphy | Kenneth Welsh | Thomas Kopache | Bobby Pickett | Ken Pogue | Don James | Dennis Strong | Ray Landry | Jon Granik | Marvin Goldhar | Mavor Moore | Doris Petrie | Steve Pernie | Alfie Scopp | Tom Harvey | Henry Ramer | Maureen McRae | Daniel Buccos | Ken James | Sharon Dyer | Alan Murley | Ann Lange | Lu M. Dishart | Michele Finney | Jo Ann Frost | Cynthia Long | Doug Morgan | Ian Ng Cheng Hin | Diane Polly | Alfred Ponder | James H. Rainwater | Olive Bea Warren