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A movie about those who appreciate the finest things in life... for free!
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
How to Steal a Million
1966 Directed by William Wyler
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Nice amusing way to spend two hours. Not so much laugh out loud as smile and enjoy the company of Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
Hepburn's father is an art forger and he has loaned a statue to a museum. Meanwhile, O'Toole tries to steal a painting from Hepburn and her father's house. However, he only takes a piece of paint to test. Since she doesn't want to call the police and bring attention to her crooked father, she takes the thief home.
An expert is coming to examine the fake statue on display at the museum for the insurance company, so father and daughter panic. She finds the thief and convinces him to help her steal the statue.
Like I said an enjoyable farce with some witty lines and director William Wyler is very fond of Audrey's legs.
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Directed by William Wyler, How to Steal a Million presents a terrific opportunity to watch Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn spar in a romantic heist comedy that may be relatively light entertainment and is hardly among Wyler's most well-known works. That said, as a heist comedy, the film is a charmer. Now, O'Toole and Hepburn certainly do not hurt this element with both turning in terrific performances. With fun heist sequences and a compelling premise, Wyler and his cast inject life into a film that could have been quite dry and tame if handled by a lesser talent. As a whole, How to Steal a Million is not necessarily seen as a classic, but…
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Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole are adorable. The story, involving the theft of a million dollar statue from a museum in order to keep an old forger out of prison, was silly but fun.
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Peter O'Toole: [looking at a nude scupture] "Where precisely were you in the early part of the sixteenth century?"
Audrey Hepburn: "I don't know, but that's not how I was dressed."
A romantic comedy -slash- heist film, How to Steal a Million merges the genres as only the 1960's can. It's gorgeous: colorful and stylish almost to the point of gaudiness. Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole charm as they scheme to steal a statue from one of the top museums in Paris.
Delicious and sweet. It's a lovely dessert film that could probably be 20 minutes shorter with no real harm.
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Delightful little heist romp with some A+ chemistry between Hepburn and O'Toole, fun side characters, and a couple genuine surprises. Fluff, but entertaining fluff.
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audrey hepburn is my everything and i always have a good time watching her movies
if i ever get a hold of a time machine of sorts i'm going back in time to hug her and tell her how much she means to me -
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scenes i like:
- when the police are driving up and it slowly zooms in on blurry audrey in the circular window
- when you first see peter and the closeup shot of his super duper blue eyes -
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"This thing you've really stolen... is my heart!! XD"
-Someone in this movie probably
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