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Directed by | Aram Avakian |
Written by | Jeffrey Bloom Charles Grodin (adaptation) Gerald A. Browne (novel) |
Produced by | Elliott Kastner Denis Holt (associate producer) |
Starring | Candice Bergen James Mason Charles Grodin |
Cinematography | Arthur Ibbetson |
Edited by | Anne V. Coates |
Music by | Michael J. Lewis |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release date | 1974 |
Running time | 94 min |
Country | UK |
Language | English |
11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 film directed by Aram Avakian. It was adapted by Charles Grodin based upon the novel by Gerald A. Browne with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom. It stars Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard and Sir John Gielgud.
Plot Synopsis
Set, in England, this comedic heist film involves a small time diamond merchant who is unexpectedly offered the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of an extremely large diamond to be named for its wealthy owner. When the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at "The System," located at 11 Harrowhouse with the help of his beautiful and wealthy girlfriend.
Reviews
Time Magazine reviewed the film positively, and described the cast as "poised and stylish."
Relevance
A prominent theme of the film revolves around how the primary world diamond producer controls the price of diamonds by creating artificial scarcity.
Versions
This film has been screened in two versions in the past - both with and without a retrospective commentary from Grodin's character, H.R. Chesser. Only the version without commentary seems to be widely available in published form, and neither version seems to have been screened to great extent on TV, though the original version with commentary holds up very well today. The film was released on LaserDisc by Fox Video in Widescreen Format.