''The Fairfax Millions'' (russian: Миллионы Ферфакса, Milliony Ferfaksa) is a 1980 Soviet

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directed by Nikolai Ilinsky based on Alan Winnington's novel of the same name.

Plot

An influential businessman, millionaire Anthony Fairfax, suffers from a serious illness. With the help of Dr. Jones, a heart transplant operation is performed on him using the heart taken from his brother. Paul Fairfax is a young scapegrace, who eagerly waits the death of Anthony, and is the only legitimate heir to his vast fortune. His heart is genetically the most suitable for transplantation, and on the advice of the doctors Anthony Fairfax agrees to a double murder - Paul and a certain Mr. Jackson, who is supposed to play the role of a donor. Russell Jones, Dr. of Fairfax is the lover of his young wife and receives an annual solid grant for research. Fearing that with the death of Anthony the payments will stop, he dreams of getting several hundred thousand pounds and going abroad. For greater confidence in success, he goes on deception and tells Fairfax about the practical completion of his work on creating an artificial heart. On the trail of criminals, with the help of Jones' former lover, the experienced inspector Percy Gallet, appointed by the ministry, comes around. He organizes a surveillance of the house, waits until Jones arrives, and is about to arrest both of them. Fairfax kills Jones, and his people murder Gallet. Evening news reports the culpability in all the murders of Dr. Russell Jones, allegedly suffering from manic psychosis.

Cast

Juozas Budraitis Juozas Budraitis (born 6 October 1940) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film ''Wounded Game'', which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis ...

— Anthony Fairfax, a millionaire *Grazhyna Baikshtite — Marilyn Fairfax, wife of Anthony *Ilmar Tammour — Inspector Percy Gallet *Alexander Martynov — Russell Jones, transplant surgeon *Helga Dantzberg — Lucy Downtree *Povilas Gaidis — Tiggy Downtree *Gediminas Girdvainis — Sergeant Fitzgerald, Assistant Inspector Galleta * Juris Strenga — George Burns * Galina Loginova — Molly Firren, secretary of Dr. Jones *

Ivars Kalniņš Ivars Edmunds Kalniņš (born 1 August 1948) is a Latvian film and television actor. He graduated in 1974 from the Jāzeps Vītols Theatre Department of the Latvian Conservatory. He had already started acting however in 1972 at the Artistic Acade ...

— Paul Fairfax, brother of Antoni *Vladimir Ehrenberg — Joshua Ward *Milena Tontegode — Gully *

Yevgeny Vesnik Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; 15 January 1923 in Petrograd – 10 April 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal pl ...

— High Commissioner of Police *Vladimir Tkachenko is Adjutant General Commex *Dmitry Mirgorodsky — police detective *Yuri Leonidov — General Cummins *

Volodymyr Talashko Volodymyr Dmytrovych Talashko ( uk, Володимир Дмитрович Талашко) is a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. Organizer Leonid Bykov Foundation. People's Artist of Ukraine (2002). Biography Vladimir Talashko was born March 6, 19 ...

— Malcolm Treddic *Vladimir Shakalo — Arthur Cook *

Paul Butkevich Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

— Police Commissioner *Lydia Chaschina — Elsa Jackson

References

External links

* Dovzhenko Film Studios films Films scored by Eduard Artemyev Soviet crime drama films 1980 crime drama films 1980 films {{1980s-USSR-film-stub