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Original film poster
Directed by	Richard Brooks
Produced by	M.J. Frankovich
Written by	Richard Brooks
Starring	Warren Beatty Goldie Hawn Gert Fröbe Robert Webber Scott Brady
Music by	Quincy Jones Featuring Don Elliott Voices With performances by Little Richard Roberta Flack Doug Kershaw
Cinematography	Petrus R. Schlömp
Edited by	George Grenville
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	December 17, 1971 (1971-12-17)
Running time	121 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English German

$ (also known as Dollars and in the UK as The Heist) is a 1971 American caper film starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The movie was written and directed by Richard Brooks and produced by M.J. Frankovich. The supporting cast includes Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber and Scott Brady. The film was partly shot in Hamburg, Germany, which forms the primary location of the film and was supported by the Hamburg Art Museum and Bendestorf Studios.

The film's title appears in the opening credits only in the form of a giant character, as would be used in a sign, being transported by a crane.

Set in Hamburg, West Germany, several criminals take advantage of the German bank privacy laws to use safe deposit boxes in a German bank to store large amounts of illicit cash. These include a Las Vegas mobster as well as a ruthless drug smuggler known as the Candy Man and a crooked overbearing U.S. Army sergeant and his meek-mannered partner the Major, who conspire on a big heroin and LSD smuggling score. Joe Collins (Warren Beatty), an American bank security consultant, has been spying on them and makes mysterious and elaborate preparations to steal their money (totaling more than $1.5 million) with the help of Dawn Divine (Goldie Hawn), a hooker with a heart of gold.