Sharing The Screen With James Coburn Wasn't The Career Boost Harrison Ford Hoped It Would Be

Dec 12 2022 by /Film

 

11 years before Harrison Ford hit the hyperdrive to stardom via George Lucas' "Star Wars," he made his amusingly unassuming big-screen debut in the James Coburn vehicle "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round." Directed by Bernard Girard (best known for ... well, "Dead Head on a Merry-Go-Round"), the film is a standard-issue con-man yarn designed to go as far as Coburn's considerable charm will take it and not an inch further. If you enjoy watching Coburn be Coburn, it's diverting enough, but the...

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