Wednesday, April 29, 2009

How to Steal a Million


I saw this very entertaining movie the other night, "How to Steal a Million" (1966) with Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn.

The basic plot of the movie was that A.H. played the daughter of an art forger. One of their forged sculptures was in a big museum show in France (and insured for a million dollars!). P.O.T is a charming burglar who works with A.H. to steal the statue and presumably, collect the insurance money.

There were the portly, bumbling french guards (who stay at the museum all night and eat & drink wine). I secretly want some of those. The paddy wagon of french guards who show up and file through the museum at a moment's notice of trouble. The monopoly man of a Registrar who unfolded a map of loan conditions which contained "the work will be covered in the case of earthquake, thunderbolt & larceny..." and the cleaning ladies, who dressed in rags, and wiped the floors, marble walls, pedestals, and works of art with the same dirty rags & dirty water (ugh!). 

Overall, it was an entertaining movie. I am a sucker for art-heist movies.

1 comment:

  1. I LOVE this movie... she got a lot of shit for losing her "chops" as she got older, but I thought she was wonderful in this. Was it on AMC or TCM?

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