The Trust That Went Bust
The Trust That Went Bust is a Soviet 1983 musical TV miniseries based on short stories by O. Henry: "The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", and "The Ethics of Pig". Directed by Aleksandr Pavlovsky. Screenplay by Igor Shevtsov
Cast
- Regimantas Adomaitis as Andy Tucker
- Nikolai Karachentsov as Jeff Peters
- Leonid Kuravlyov as Farmer Ezra Plunkett
- Mikhail Svetin as Doorman Klein
- Irina Ponarovskaya as Pseudo-Sarah Bernhardt
- Vladimir Basov as Pseudo-John Pierpont Morgan
- Yuri Mazhuga as Bill Humble
- Pavel Vinnik as The storeowner
- Yelena Aminova as Female secretary at the ministry
- Vsevolod Abdulov as Joe Blassome
- Tamara Yatsenko as The widowed Miss Trotter
- Viktor Ilyichov as Ruf Tattum
- Gennadi Yalovich as The postman
- Boris Novikov as The artillerist
- Lev Perfilov as The keyhole-peeping con artist
- David Makarevsky as The Mayor
- Aleksandr Pavlovsky as The Mayor's nephew
- Viktor Pavlovsky as The policeman
- Mikhail Muromov as The busker
- Ingrīda Andriņa as Mrs. Ezra Plunkett
- Oleg Fedulov as Drunk man
- Leonid Anisimov
- Viktor Andriyenko
- Valeri Bassel
- Boris Astankov
- Vitaly Derkach
- Sergey Zinchenko
- Georgy Derevyansky
- Igor Tiltikov
- Gennady Butrov
Songs in the film
- Composer - Maksim Dunayevsky
- Lyrics by Naum Olev, Leonid Filatov