It Takes All Kinds (film)

American sailor Tony Gunher is asked by Laura Ring to help steal a glass-stained window from a museum. The robbery is a success but then Laura disappears with the window. Tony finds her and she's discovered with crime lord Orville Benton. Benton has a collection of art treasures in the false bottom of a wheat silo. Police capture Benton and his gang but Laura dies.

• Vera Miles as Laura Ring
• Robert Lansing as Tony Gunther
• Barry Sullivan as Orville Benton
• Sid Melton as Benji
• Penny Sugg as J.P. Duncan
• Chris Christensen as Swede
• Edward Heppie as Cockney
• Tommy Dysart as Seaman
• Alistair Smart as Ray
• Rod Mullinar as Policeman
• Bob Haddow as Dan
• Peter Whittle as Bodyguard
• Reg Gorman as Man at airport
• Roger Ward as Bodyguard
• John Llewellyn as Detective
• Les Berryman

The film was the first of three movies made by Reg Goldsworthy in association with Commonwealth United Corporation for the American television market.^[3] The director and leading actors were imported from Hollywood but the rest of the cast and crew were Australian.^[4]

It was shot in four weeks in March 1968. Locations were shot around Sydney and Melbourne with interiors done at Ajax Studios in Sydney.^[1]

The film was poorly reviewed and had a disappointing commercial reception.^[1]

• It Takes All Kinds at IMDb
• It Takes All Kinds at the TCM Movie Database
• It Takes All Kinds at Oz Movies