It Takes All Kinds (film)

It Takes All Kinds is a 1969 Australian crime drama film directed by Eddie Davis.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * 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

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

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

Release
The film was poorly reviewed and had a disappointing commercial reception.