Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)

★ 5.3 1h 15m IMDb

A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering about their existences.

Haunts of the Very Rich

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Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges as Dave Woodrough Died 1998 · San Leandro, California, USA Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998) was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role on Sea Hunt. He is the fath...
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman as Ellen Blunt Died 2021 · Des Moines, Iowa, USA Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from...
Ed Asner
Ed Asner as Al Hunsicker Died 2021 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA Edward Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021), commonly known as Ed Asner, was an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily know...
Anne Francis
Anne Francis as Annette Larrier Died 2011 · Ossining, New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anne Lloyd Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress, best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (...
Tony Bill
Tony Bill as Lyle Age 85 · San Diego, California, USA Gerard Anthony "Tony" Bill (born August 23, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie The Sting, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michae...
Donna Mills
Donna Mills as Laurie Age 85 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Donna Mills (born December 11, 1942) is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing..

Audience Reviews

Wuchak 5/10 Mar 10, 2022
**_Tropical retreat of fools_**

Seven wealthy people are flown to a remote-but-swanky tourist center, evidently somewhere in the tropics of Latin America. As the cultured host (Moses Gunn) entertains them and they get to know each other, they have to deal with the results of a storm while reflecting on the curiosities of the situation. The seven are played by Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Anne Francis, Tony Bill, Donna Mills and Robert Reed.

The premise of "Haunts of the Very Rich" (1972) hails back to “Outward Bound” (1930), which was remade as “Between Two Worlds” (1944). It has similarities to Fantasy Island, which wouldn’t debut for five more years, mixed with The Twilight Zone.

The resort manor locations are fabulous, reminiscent of “Frogs,” released six months earlier. The cast is of note and the drama is decent, but it’s a decidedly low-key experience where Tony Bill & Donna Mills are relocated to peripheral status.

While this is a television production, it’s technically well done.

The movie runs 1 hour, 15 minutes, and was shot in Miami, Florida, particularly Villa Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Biscayne Bay (the resort in the movie). Stock footage was obviously used for the brief scene with a mountain in the background.

GRADE: C+/B- (5.5/10)

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