Try This One for Size
5.3
1989
1 hr 45 min
Comedy
, Crime
, Mystery
The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an insurance company detective, to track down a valuable medieval Russian icon, which was stolen by Bradley (David Carradine), a master thief.
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- Cast：
- Michael Brandon , David Carradine , Arielle Dombasle , Guy Marchand , Mario Adorf , Peter Bowles , Harold Innocent
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Reviews
Redundant and unnecessary.
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It is a performances centric movie
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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
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Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
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