Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope (1966)

From London to the Riviera, a hair-raising tale of gallant love and truly desperate adventure!

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.

Date of release
1966-07-01
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Director
Jack Smight

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Kaleidoscope is a 1966 comedy caper film directed by Jack Smight and starring Warren Beatty, Susannah York and Clive Revill. The film follows a jet-setting gambler (Beatty) and his lover (York), who are blackmailed by a Scotland Yard Inspector (Revill) into using their skills to takedown a crime boss.

Production

Kaleidoscope was the third film Jack Smight directed for Warners. Smight called the script "terrific... a little hard to believe, but nevertheless a jolly fun premise laced with great humor."

He says producer Elliot Kastner cast Sandra Dee as the female lead mostly because Warren Beatty wanted to sleep with her. Smight said, "Though I had worked with Sandra in my first film...and had regard for her, I couldn’t conceive of her playing a role of the British girl that the script called for...So much for the producer’s wanting to protect the integrity of a fine screenplay."

During pre-production in France, Kastner admitted he did not want Dee in the film. Smight asked Jack Warner if he could have Susannah York and Warner agreed. Dee was paid off.

Filming took place on-location in London, Surrey, Paris (doubling for Geneva), Monte Carlo, and at Pinewood Studios.

Smight says Beatty was undisciplined during filming. They would rehearse scenes but then "just as we were about to roll the camera, Warren would ask if he could try something different from what we had earlier settled upon. I wanted to be flexible in the event that what he wanted to do was better than what we had planned. Inevitably it wasn't."

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