How to steal a million

[antipop]

I watched it last night and I was just loving it from the beginning. I usually play on my iphone or laptop when I watch a movie at home but this one had my full attention all the time.

There is charm and elegance in this movie which you do not find in modern ones. Audrey is just lovely and she's one of the best actress. She's pretty, cute, funny, witty, the perfect girl.

I believe this is one of her best movie.

Peter O'Toole is perfect as well, he plays marvellously well as a clumsy but smart robber completely enchanted by Audrey. And those blue eyes...




The synopsis:

Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole's objections. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father's workshop. She can't call the police because her father's hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man--Simon Dermott--back to his hotel. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal.

There's so many quotable dialogues, here's a few:

[Nicole describes the burglar to her Papa]
Nicole Bonnet: Well, it was pitch dark and there he was. Tall, blue eyes, slim, quite good-looking... in a brutal, mean way, Papa. A terrible man!

[Evaluating Nicole's cleaning-woman costume]
Simon Dermott: Yes, that's fine. That does it.
Nicole Bonnet: Does what?
Simon Dermott: Well, for one thing, it gives Givenchy a night off.

Simon Dermott: Why must it be this particular work of art?
Nicole Bonnet: You don't think I'd steal something that didn't belong to me, do you?
Simon Dermott: Excuse me, I spoke without thinking.

Simon Dermott: It's National Crime Prevention Week. Take a burglar to dinner.

Simon Dermott: Yours is a capricious nature. Do you always blow hot and cold like this?

Simon Dermott: Our telephones may be tapped, so I'll conduct this entire conversation in Swahili. How are you?

Charles Bonnet: American millionaires must be all quite mad. Perhaps it's something they put in the ink when they print the money.

Charles Bonnet: This tall, good-looking ruffian with blue eyes, he didn't, er, molest you in any way, did he?
[Nicole is staring off dreamily]
Charles Bonnet: Well, did he?
Nicole Bonnet: Not much.

Charles Bonnet: Don't you know that in his lifetime Van Gogh only sold one painting? While I, in loving memory of his tragic genius, have already sold two.

Finally, the trailer :
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPStHOzjQWU]How to Steal Million (trailer) - YouTube[/ame]

[trek737]

Looks interesting .... May have to rent it... Thanks for post...

[cma29]

This movie looks good. At the time the movie was made $1 million must have been worth like $10 million now.

[ame=http://youtu.be/EJR1H5tf5wE]One Million Dollars - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (2/5) Movie CLIP (1997) HD - YouTube[/ame]

A similar title today would be "How to steal a billion."

[antipop]

Originally Posted by cma29

This movie looks good. At the time the movie was made $1 million must have been worth like $10 million now.

You're not that far. $1 in 66 is now the same as $7 today using CPI but in economic power it's more like $20.

[cma29]

Originally Posted by antipop

You're not that far. $1 in 66 is now the same as $7 today using CPI but in economic power it's more like $20.

That's interesting about the economic power figure. Essentially it reflects what it takes to keep your place in the wealth percentile.