A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.
Virgilio Teixeira
- Cayetano - the Bullfighter
- (as Virgilio Texera)
Britt Ekland
- Mrs. Pickett
- (as Britta Ekman)
Jorge Rigaud
- Spanish Police Inspector
- (as George Rigaud)
Barta Barri
- Chern - Lawyer
- (uncredited)
- …
Toni Fuentes
- Prado Museum Guard
- (uncredited)
Yasmin Khan
- Girl
- (uncredited)
Julio Peña
- Señor Elek - Hotel Bourne Desk Clerk
- (uncredited)
Karl-Heinz Schwerdtfeger
- Police Official
- (uncredited)
Lou Weber
- Prado Museum Guard
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe painting, known as the "Rokeby Venus" is by Velazquez and is his only known nude. It moved to England in 1813 to hang in Rokeby Park, Yorkshire. The painting was purchased by National Art Collections Fund in 1906 for the National Gallery, London. The suffragette Mary Richardson attacked and badly damaged the painting in 1914, but it was restored and returned to display.
- GoofsRight at the start the 'master criminal' says that it takes 32 minutes to the airport and he'll leave at 10 27 in order to get to the airport at 11.00 exactly. For someone who calculates distance and departure times to the minute, he can't do his maths very well.
- Quotes
Jimmy Bourne: [as Eve grabs a drink from a tray and tosses it back] But Eve, that's a *martini*.
Eve Lewis: It *was* a martini.
Featured review
Like watching paint dry, only not quite as exciting
What a waste of everyone's time this is: a boring story line, terrible dialogue, wooden acting from all the actors (yes, even Rex H.), pedestrian directing (sorry, no offence to pedestrians intended), lifeless cinematography with hardly a single interesting camera angle or lighting in the whole film (and in muddy black and white, too, in 1962! - and the lighting cameraman had obviously never seen a good film noir, or if he did then he must have kept his eyes closed all the time), old-fashioned editing, an awful soundtrack (that irritating whistling tune that keeps repeating ad nauseam, and I do mean ad nauseam, is a top candidate for the worst film score ever) ...
The only reason it merits 2 stars instead of 1 is that we get to see Rita H. in her negligee.
Good grief, how did the studio have the brass neck to distribute this film instead of burning it and claiming on the insurance?
The only reason it merits 2 stars instead of 1 is that we get to see Rita H. in her negligee.
Good grief, how did the studio have the brass neck to distribute this film instead of burning it and claiming on the insurance?
- lotsofwordz
- Nov 19, 2010
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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