A Touch of Larceny (1960)
1960 · Feature film · 93 min · dir. Guy Hamilton
About Money and Women and How To Get 'Em...With a Very Special Touch!
- Comedy
- Crime
Synopsis
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Guy Hamilton
- Writer
- Paul Winterton
- Composer
- Philip Green
- Cinematography
- John Wilcox
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Ivan Foxwell Productions
- Released
- 1960-02-04
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
- Running time
- 93 minutes
Cast & crew
Guy Hamilton Director
James Mason
George Sanders
Vera Miles
Robert Flemyng
Oliver Johnston
William Kendall
Duncan Lamont
Harry Andrews
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Embezzlement? I think not! · Thischarmingwalk · 2024-09-26
Of all the movies I've watched starring James Mason, I've never seen him in a comedy. This is a delicious plan for a womanizing navy commander, cad, to have his cake and eat it. It's so devious a plan that he may just get away with it. The cheeky rascal.
