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James Brolin, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison, Chick Vennera, Anthony Quinn ... see more see more... , Lindsay Wagner , James Coburn , Ernest Borgnine , Sergio Calderón , Álvaro Carcaño , Gerardo Cepeda , Rodolfo de Alexandra , Ana De Sade , Stephanie Faulkner , Paco Morayta , Eduardo Noriega , Sammy Ortiz , Udana Power , Wolf Roth , Joseph Sirola , Roberto Sosa , Leonard M. Smith , Ronne Troup , Rene Barrera , Fernando Palavicini , Douglas Sandoval , Richard Young , David Young

Stewart Raffill directs the high-action comedy caper {High Risk} about a four-man band of theives trying to pull off the perfect crime. Stone (James Brolin), Tony (Chick Venera), Dan (Bruce Davidson),... read more read more... and Rockney (Cleavon Little) hire two inept airplane pilots and plot a major heist. The plan is to rob a mansion in South America belonging to the wealthy drug lord Serrano (James Coburn). After they break open his safe and steal five million dollars, they try to escape the jungle while being followed by the Columbian army and a group of bandits led by Mariano (Anthony Quinn). Ernest Borgnine appears in a brief cameo. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Stewart Raffill

Release Date: May 1, 1981

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DVD Release Date: July 23, 2003

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  • bbcfloridabound
    May 20, 2011
    bbcfloridabound
    The number of big name stars in this movie are amazing. James Brolin, Anthony Quinn, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, and Ernest Borgnine. After doing some research I found out this movie ran up against Indiana Jones both opening at the same time. No wonder it was never heard of. I ... read morefound it in a 10 Movie Crime Wave Collection by BCI. It was a good movie in 1981 but in 2011 its something you expect to see at 3am in the morning. About 4 guys who plan on going into Mexico to steal 1 million dollars from James Coburn, without hurting anyone, figure those odds even in 1981. After their little robbery the are chased and hiding out when the run into Anthony Quinn who plays the leader of a bunch of rebels who also want the money. Kind of a crime drama with some comedy, not a good mixture in this film. 3 stars.
  • Beefy
    August 13, 2008
    Beefy
    It had the components there to be a cheese classic, but it kind of got old along the way. Still, you have to appreciate how it so gleefully avoids things like logic or realism for the sake of its "story".

    Whatever happened to Cleavon Little, anyway?
  • LittleMissBloodAndGuts
    April 18, 2009
    LittleMissBloodAndGuts
    This is a little gem of a modestly budgeted film that establishes one of the main premises of Deliverance. When everyone in some hell hole would give anything to trade places with a man of privilege from a comparative paradise, what the hell is the man of privilege doing fuck... read moreing around in the hell-hole where he has no business? With some familiar faces such as James Brolin and Bruce Davison who portrayed George Orr in the original PBS production of The Lathe Of Heaven.

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