You Can’t Win ‘Em All ** (1970, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 8650

Unlikely co-stars Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson enjoy their roles and their repartee as joking ex-US Army mercenary sparring partners Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, hired by (Grégoire Aslan), in embattled Turkey in the civil war of the early 1920s in the 1970 action movie You Can’t Win ‘Em All.

It is directed capably enough and on striking-looking locations by Britain’s Peter Collinson (immediately after his one great hit The Italian Job) when Howard Hawks dropped out.

You Can’t Win ‘Em All is a tolerable comedy action adventure experience, with spirited, larky performances, especially by the two stars relishing their roles as bantering soldiers of fortune. But it is let down by predictable plotting in the screenplay by Leo V Gordon.

Curtis recalled: ‘It didn’t have anything going for it except me and Bronson, who was the most entertaining yet introverted man I ever met.’

Also in the cast are Michèle Mercier, Grégoire Aslan, Patrick Magee, Fikret Hakan, Salih Guney, Tony Bonner, Jahn Acheson, Horst Janson, Leo V Gordon, Reed De Rouen, Paul Stassino, Henia Halil and John Alderson.

© Derek Winnert 2019 Classic Movie Review 8650

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