How to Steal a Million

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How to Steal a Million
Directed by	William Wyler
Produced by	William Wyler Fred Kohlmar
Written by	George Bradshaw (story) Harry Kurnitz
Starring	Audrey Hepburn Peter O'Toole Eli Wallach Hugh Griffith Charles Boyer
Music by	Johnny Williams
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Editing by	Robert Swink
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	July 13, 1966
Running time	123 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$6,000,000 (estimated)
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How to Steal a Million (1966) is an art-heist movie, directed by William Wyler, starring Peter O'Toole as a suave art investigator and Audrey Hepburn as Nicole Bonnet, the daughter of genius art fraud Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith). The central theme of the movie is the recovery from a Parisian museum of a forged Cellini committed by Bonnet's grandfather, before its discovery and exposure as such, and is enlivened by the romantic angle between the characters played by O'Toole and Hepburn.

[edit] Plot

Charles Bonnet is a professional art fraud, and has just loaned a forged sculpture to a museum. One night, his daughter Nicole finds a man trying to steal one of the many paintings in their house (which happens to be forged). Knowing that if she reports him there will be an investigation and the families secret destroyed, she offers to drive the man home. Later, she and her father learn that his sculpture is going to have a mandatory authenticity test, which leaves them both devastated. In order to save her father, Nicole enlists the aid of the thief from before, who she had been running into constantly since the incident, to steal the sculpture, which he accepts after some hesitation. They spend the night in a storage closet in the museum, and he twice uses a boomerang to set off the high tech alarm, thus confusing the guards into thinking it's defective. After the second time, they don't reactivate the alarm. The two take the sculpture and walk out amidst all the confusion about the disappearance. With the family saved, the thief reveals he is actually a police detective who captures art frauds, but will not take her father in if he gives up his crime. Nicole and the "thief" realize they love each other and are married.

[edit] External links

• How to Steal a Million at the Internet Movie Database
• Screensaver and Wallpaper based on the film

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