Midas Run

{{Infobox film

| name = Midas Run

| image = Midas Run FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Alf Kjellin

| writer = Ronald Austin
James Buchanan
Berne Giler

| producer = Selig J. Seligman
Raymond Stross

| starring = Richard Crenna
Anne Heywood
Fred Astaire

| music = Elmer Bernstein

| cinematography = Kenneth Higgins

| editing = Fredric Steinkamp

| studio = Selmur Pictures
Motion Pictures International{{AFI film|22189}}

| distributor = Cinerama Releasing

| released = {{film date|1969|4|30}}

| runtime = 106 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = $1.1 million"ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, May 31, 1973 p 3

| gross = $500,000

}}

Midas Run (UK title A Run on Gold) is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Alf Kjellin and starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood and, in one of his final big-screen roles, Fred Astaire.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/102238/A-Run-on-Gold/overview |title=New York Times: Midas Run |access-date=August 30, 2008 |first=A. H. |last=Weiler |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617034207/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/102238/A-Run-on-Gold/overview |archive-date=June 17, 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2008 |url-status=dead }} It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany. Location shooting took place in London, Venice, Milan and Rome.

Plot

Pedley, retiring from the British Secret Service, can't understand why he hasn't yet been knighted. He devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo, recruiting Mike Warden, a writer from America, although his real aim is to capture the elusive General Ferranti.

Warden travels to Italy to assume control of the scheme along with Pedley's accomplice Sylvia Giroux, with whom he soon falls in love. They are arrested, but Pedley comes to their rescue just in time.

Cast

Richard Crenna as Mike Warden
Anne Heywood as Sylvia Giroux
Fred Astaire as John Pedley
Ralph Richardson as Lord Henshaw
Cesar Romero as Carlo Dodero
Adolfo Celi as General Ferranti
Maurice Denham as Charles Crittenden
John Le Mesurier as Wells
Jacques Sernas as Paul Giroux
Karl-Otto Alberty as Mark Dietrich
George Hartmann as Anton Pfeiffer
Carolyn De Fonseca as Ingeborg Pfeiffer
Aldo Bufi Landi as Carabiniere
Stanley Baugh as Pilot
Fred Astaire Jr. as Co-Pilot
Bruce Beeby as Gordon
Robert Henderson as The Dean
Roddy McDowall as Wister

Production

The film was one of several collabroations between producer Raymond Stross and his wife Anne Heywood. Richard Crenna claimed that Heywood had the script rewritten to suit her purposes.{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=4 May 2025|access-date=4 May 2025|title=Not Quite Movie Stars: Anne Heywood|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/not-quite-movie-stars-anne-heywood}}