Joe Collins (Beatty) is a security expert employed in Hamburg who plans to rob three safety deposit boxes which he knows are rented by criminals, and Dawn Divine (Hawn) is a prostitute whom he enlists to help him in the endeavor. Their targets are a crooked US Army sergeant (Brady) who scammed money from service clubs, a drug dealer (Brauss) and a courier (Webber) who's been double-dealing the mob. Employed at their bank to install a security system, Collins arranges to be placed inside the vault after a bomb scare. Timing his moves perfectly so as to go unnoticed by surveillance cameras, he stashes the loot in Dawn's safety deposit box so she can blithely collect it later.

An exercise in triviality, and, like most of Brooks's films, not particulary original, $ is nevertheless quite entertaining. Beatty and Hawn play extremely well together and Frobe is outstanding as the bank manager. Running rather longer than one might like, $ benefits from Brooks's lively handling and Quincy Jones's sparse but effective musical score.

Warren Beatty: Joe Collins

Goldie Hawn: Dawn Divine

Gert Frobe: Mr. Kessel

Robert Webber: Attorney

Scott Brady: Sarge

Arthur Brauss: Candy Man

Robert Stiles: Major

Wolfgang Kieling: Granich

Robert Herron: Bodyguard

Christiane Maybach: Helga

Hans Hutter: Karl

Monica Stender: Berta

Francoise Blanc: Stripper

Horst Hesslein: Bruno

Wolfgang Kuhlman: Fur Coat

Klaus Tschichan: Knife Man

Tove Platon: Custom

Kirsten Lahman: Custom

Darrell Armstrong: Associated Press Reporter

Walter Trott: Stars and Stripes Reporter

Richard Brooks: Director

Charlie Abrahams: Writer

M.J. Frankovich: Producer

Petrus Schloemp: Cinematographer - Technicolor

George Grenville: Editor

Quincy Jones: Musical Composer

Olaf Ivens: Art Director

Guy Sheppard: Art Director

Johannes Kohler: Casting

Jan Van Der Eerden: Sound

Bob Jiras: Make Up

Ernst Schnikil: Make Up

Elsa De Bruycker: Technical Advisor