# Help Me ID This Peter Falk Movie
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449
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**Created:** [August 16, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449 "2013-08-16T20:53:13Z")
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/1 "2013-08-16T20:53:13Z")
I saw it on cable-it was about a mafia guy (Peter Falk) who gets in trouble with his bosses. Meanwhile, an underling (played by Roy Schneider) hatches a plan to rob the Mob’s casino in Las Vegas-he plants bombs in the casino, then comes to the scene dressed as a fire captain (he robs the casino of $2 million)…but he doesn’t get away with it.
The film was made by an Italian company- I could not find it on the IMDB.
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/2 "2013-08-16T20:56:53Z")
[Machine Gun McCain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065895/)?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/3 "2013-08-17T17:20:04Z")
[IMDB common cast](http://www.imdb.com/search/common) turns up nothing (the above link either doesn’t have Scheider or he’s uncredited. Note: Roy Scheider, not Sch **n** eider.) I haven’t seen it, but who plays the equivalent role?
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### Author:  [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/4 "2013-08-17T17:55:49Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> [IMDB common cast](http://www.imdb.com/search/common) (the above link either doesn’t have Scheider or he’s uncredited. ) I haven’t seen it, but who plays the equivalent role?
John Cassavetes. I could see someone confusing [the](http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cassavetes.jpg) [two](http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/36/3633/3TVEF00Z/posters/roy-scheider.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/5 "2013-08-17T21:27:07Z")
From a customer review on Amazon
> **[Amazon.com: MACHINE GUN McCAIN : John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Britt Ekland, Gena...](https://www.amazon.com/MACHINE-GUN-McCAIN-John-Cassavetes/dp/B003M986UM)**
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> Product Description After millions of people around the globe mysteriously disappear, veteran pilot Ray Steele must fight to protect the passengers that remain on his flight. Trapped at 30,000 feet, he must find a way to safely land the...
_Unfortunately, McCain, played with a typical bad-taste-in-his-mouth sneer and smoke-in-his-eyes half-squint by Cassavettes, simply isn’t an interesting enough bastard to overcome his callous indifference to violence - he’s the kind of man who’ll smile at a hatcheck girl while planting a diversionary bomb that could kill her and who registers no emotion when those supposedly closest to him are killed until the unconvincing ending_
This sounds like a likely candidate.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/6 "2013-08-17T21:31:00Z")
And from an online review:
[http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/machinegunmccain.htm](http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/machinegunmccain.htm)
_“Hank uses bombs and a fireman disguise to successfully rob the casino of $2 million dollars”_
We have confirmation.
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-falk-movie/666449/7 "2013-08-20T15:00:01Z")
Thanks for the replies…the movie was shown on an odd cable channel my brother gets. So it was John Cassavettes, and not Roy Scheider.