Strictly Business

Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson’s stallion, he’s ambushed and killed by “Shark” Dodson, who seizes the entire loot. (2) A thief slips through a third-floor window to steal a stack of bills from a sleeping gentleman’s dressing table. When the homeowner awakens and raises only one hand against the revolver—his other immobilized by a sudden rheumatic attack—the would-be robber reconsiders his plan. (3) Sam and Bill, two small-time grifters short $2,000 for their swindle, decide to kidnap Ebeneger Dorset’s young son. They demand exactly that sum as ransom, setting in motion a desperate bargain.

• Leonid GaidaiDirector
• Leonid GaidaiScreenplay
• Georgiy FirtichOriginal Music Composer

• Vladlen PaulusShark Dodson (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Aleksandr ShvorinBob Tidball (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Viktor GromovMr. Williams (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Vladimir PitsekTrain Driver (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Viktor UralskyTrain Stoker (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Lev LobovGuard on Mail Train (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Yuri ChulyukinPeabody (segment "The Roads We Take")
• Rostislav PlyattLandlord (segment "Makes the Whole World Kin")
• Yuriy NikulinThief (segment "Makes the Whole World Kin")
• Georgiy VitsinSam (segment "The Ransom of Redskins Chief")
• Aleksei SmirnovBill Driscoll (segment "The Ransom of Redskins Chief")
• Sergei TikhonovJohnny Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Redskins Chief")