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      11 Harrowhouse (also known as Fast Fortune) is a 1974 British heist comedy thriller film directed by Aram Avakian and starring Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard, and John Gielgud. It was adapted by Grodin based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Gerald A. Browne, with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom.


      Plot


      In England, a small-time diamond merchant is unexpectedly offered the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of an extremely large diamond to be named after 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 Street, City of London with the help of his beautiful and wealthy girlfriend. The key figure in the theft, however, is the inside man Watts, who works in the vault at The System. Watts is dying of cancer and wants to leave his family financially secure.
      Although The System has an elaborate network of defences and alarms against intruders, the robbery is carried out at night by gaining access to the roof from an adjacent property and threading a hosepipe down a conduit into the vault, where Watts uses it to vacuum up thousands of rough diamonds out of their drawers. The thieves leave before the robbery is discovered, and when found in the vault in the morning, Watts claims to have eaten the gems. Before he can confess, Watts deliberately swallows poison and dies at 11 Harrowhouse Street. Most of the loot is buried in concrete, to prevent it flooding the market.


      Cast


      Charles Grodin as Howard R. Chesser
      Candice Bergen as Maren Shirell
      James Mason as Charles D. Watts
      Trevor Howard as Clyde Massey
      John Gielgud as Meecham, the head man at The System
      Helen Cherry as Lady Bolding
      Peter Vaughan as Coglin
      Cyril Shaps as Wildenstein
      Leon Greene as Toland
      Jack Watson as Miller
      Jack Watling as Fitzmaurice
      Clive Morton as Sir Harold
      Larry Cross as Whitman
      John Siddall as hands used to paint the cockroaches


      Production


      The film was made at Pinewood Studios with extensive location shooting in London, Ragley Hall in Warwickshire and at Quainton Road railway station. The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Mullins.
      Editor Anne Coates said the director "was a real character. He had been a very top editor... But he was totally disorganised. And, so, it was not easy to cut the work in a way. Because, Elliott Kastner wanted a straightforward storyline movie; Aram was the kind of director that shot off the cuff, bits and pieces here and there as he felt like it." She also says Charles Grodin "was very difficult to handle" and did not get along with Bergen "so, you know, it caused a lot of problems. But I think the main problem with that film was the scripts, the first script was so much better than the ten they wrote afterwards. Because everybody was putting input into it."


      Reviews


      The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite many incidental felicities, Aram Avakian seems to have had some difficulty finding the right tone for this robbery caper, which ultimately tumbles between several stools into that timehonoured transatlantic cliché: the American outsider grappling with a bland wall of English bowlers, brollies and phlegm. At the outset, the device of having Chesser's off-screen voice quietly introducing himself behind the credits, and hinting at the subversive role he will soon be playing while we watch an attempted robbery being foiled (the System's security guards cheerfully blow up the thieves), seems to be a grave miscalculation: what has interior monologue to do with this glossy, James Bondian world? Gradually, however, this narration begins to pay dividends. ... The last sequences, in fact, are an unqualified disaster: an elaborate, badly constructed and totally unfunny car chase (its clichéd awfulness compounded by the admixture of a fox-hunting motif) which presupposes that everyone has gone momentarily mad. It is a sad end to a film which might have been a worthy companion piece to Cops and Robbers." During production while filming, Charles Grodin was in a different room of the manor they were filming , a maid confronted Grodin and said "did someone tell you to come into this room?" Grodin said no. Her reply was "It would be soo nice if you weren't here.." Years later, Grodin decided to name his 1989 book It Would Be Soo Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business.
      Variety wrote: "Grodin messes up the film with ineffective shy-guy acting, and clobbers it with catatonic voice-over that is supposed to be funny ... Howard and Mason appear close to embarrassed in their roles."
      Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic wrote that 11 Harrowhouse's finale was apparently 'devised by a moron high on LSD' but praised James Mason's acting saying 'he creates a whole man in the middle of roaring nonsense'.
      Leslie Halliwell said: "Amusing caper story marred by sudden changes of mood."
      The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "This overeager comedy foolhardily attempts to send up the heist caper. Only the bullish playing saves the day, as Aram Avakian's direction is so slipshod that the enterprise has descended into low farce long before the extended chase finale. Hard though Charles Grodin and Candice Bergen try as the ingenious vacuuming jewel thieves, they're totally outclassed by a venerable supporting cast."


      Versions



      The film has been screened in two versions in the past, both with and without narration from Grodin's character, Howard R. Chesser. The version without narration plays under two alternate titles, either Anything for Love or Fast Fortune. Neither version was broadcast often on television; the version without the narration was the most widely available for purchase for a time. The film was released on LaserDisc by Fox Video in Widescreen format and with the narration intact.


      Home media


      On 2 February 2011, Shout! Factory released the film on Region 1 DVD.


      See also


      Heist film


      References




      External links


      11 Harrowhouse at IMDb
      11 Harrowhouse at the TCM Movie Database
      11 Harrowhouse at the British Film Institute

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    11 Harrowhouse (1974) - IMDb

    11 Harrowhouse: Directed by Aram Avakian. With Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard. Independent diamond broker Howard Chesser and his girlfriend Maren Shirell attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

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    11 Harrowhouse (1974) - Plot - IMDb

    A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse. —Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>

    11 Harrowhouse (1974) - User reviews - IMDb

    Aram Avakian's "11 Harrowhouse" is a lighthearted heist comedy, with Grodin as a man plotting to steal some diamonds from the headquarters of a British company. The movie is nothing special - and the narration is a little distracting - but Grodin and Candice Bergen make an excellent team, with James Mason as the inside man.

    11 Harrowhouse (1974) - Soundtracks - IMDb

    11 Harrowhouse. Edit. Long Live Love. Lyrics by Hal Shaper. Music by Michael J. Lewis. Performed by Lennie Peters (as Peters) and Dianne Lee (as Lee) Day after Day. Lyrics by Hal Shaper. Music by Michael J. Lewis. Performed by Lennie Peters (as Peters) and Dianne Lee (as Lee) Prelude (uncredited)

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    was taken from an incident that happened on the set of this movie, as he explained in his introduction: "Candy Bergen and I were filming the movie 11 Harrowhouse in a castle outside London. We were sitting in a room off of the main hall where the cameras were being set up.

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    What is the plot of 11 Harrowhouse? Independent diamond broker Howard Chesser and his girlfriend Maren Shirell attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London. How much did 11 Harrowhouse earn at the US box office?

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    11 Harrowhouse: Directed by Aram Avakian. With Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard. Independent diamond broker Howard Chesser and his girlfriend Maren Shirell attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

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    11 Harrowhouse: Directed by Aram Avakian. With Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard. Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.