Strictly Business (1962 film)

Strictly Business

Directed by	Leonid Gaidai
Screenplay by	Leonid Gaidai
Based on	O.Henry
Starring	Vladlen Paulus Rostislav Plyatt Yuri Nikulin Georgy Vitsin Sergey Tikhonov
Music by	Georgy Firtich
Cinematography	Konstantin Brovin
Edited by	Alla Abramova
Production company	Mosfilm
Release dates	1962
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Strictly Business (alternate name Business People, Russian: Деловые люди, translit. Delovye lyudi) is a 1962 Soviet black-and-white comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, based on three short stories by O. Henry: "The Roads We Take", "Makes the Whole World Kin", and "The Ransom of Red Chief".

The film's title is borrowed from the book of short stories by O. Henry titled Strictly Business (1910, Деловые люди in Russian translation), but none of the short stories it includes were adapted for the screen.

Cast

"The Roads We Take"

Vladlen Paulus as "Shark" Dodson
Alexander Shvorin as Bob Tidball
Viktor Gromov as Mr Williams
Vladimir Pitsek as driver (uncredited)
Viktor Uralsky as Fireman (uncredited)
Lev Lobov as conductor of the coach (uncredited)

"Makes the Whole World Kin"

Rostislav Plyatt as landlord
Yuri Nikulin as thief

"The Ransom of Red Chief"

Georgy Vitsin as Sam, adventurer
Alexei Smirnov as Bill Driscoll
Sergey Tikhonov as Johnny Dorset
Georgy Millyar as Ebenezer Dorset, father

Sources

Films directed by Leonid Gaidai

A Weary Road (1956)
A Groom from the Other World (1958)
Thrice Resurrected (1960)
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961)
Bootleggers (1961)
Strictly Business (1962)
Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965)
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
The Diamond Arm (1968)
The Twelve Chairs (1971)
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)
It Can't Be! (1975)
Incognito from St. Petersburg (1977)
Borrowing Matchsticks (1980)
Sportloto-82 (1982)
Dangerous for Your Life! (1985)
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (1990)
Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach (1992)

O. Henry

Short stories	"The Duplicity of Hargraves" (1902) "A Retrieved Reformation" (1903) "The Cop and the Anthem" (1904) "The Gift of the Magi" (1905) "Conscience in Art" (1907) "The Last Leaf" (1907) "The Third Ingredient" (1908) "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910) "Makes the Whole World Kin" (1911)

Novels	Cabbages and Kings (1904)

Story collections	The Four Million (1906) Roads of Destiny (1909) Whirligigs (1910)

Related	O. Henry Award William Sidney Porter House O. Henry House and Museum O. Henry Hall O. Henry's Full House (1952) Strictly Business (1962)

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