Monday, May 31, 2010

How to Steal a Million


How to Steal A Million (1966)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060522/]

The Gist:
An enjoyable caper film that doesn't offer much in terms of substance but gets by remarkably well on formula and great leading actors. This is one of those rare films that we see Audrey Hepburn actually given a love interest that isn't a couple generations older than she is, and thank god because honestly a film like Funny Face is tough to watch after seeing old Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire films and seeing the lead actress stay young while Astaire gets old. In fact, I watched that film with a group of friends and someone riffed that it was a really sweat "father daughter movie". But on to this movie. If you've seen a heist film, you've seen this one but the repartee between the characters is solid, the banter light, an enjoyable way to pass a couple hours.

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