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He has the assignment of spoofing the Robin Hood legacy and the couple of movie dealing with the mythical honorable thief of English folklore.
The one thief who knows where the gold is hidden is killed before he is able to talk.
In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's 'La Gioconda' (better known as the Mona Lisa) was taken from the Louvre by a petty thief (and former Louvre employee) who allegedly sought to return the world's most famous piece of art to its native Italy.
He's a liar, a cheat, a thief, a crook, and a plagiarist.
Jewel Thief is one of those suspense thrillers in which the viewers are left guessing till the end who the villain is.
Suspense builds from the very first scene when the jewel thief becomes a national problem and there are cleverly concealed clues in the film so that you can guess who is the jewel thief.
The story portrays that Dev Anand (Vinay in the film) and the jewel thief have identical faces.
We're waiting for the Thief of Always :)
An orphan boy named Tom (Tommy Pender), who works for a pair of shady chimney sweeps, is falsely accused of stealing from the mansion where he is working at by Mr. Grimes (James Mason) - the real thief - and goes on the run.
It was exactly the lack of explanation, color, sharpness that made it enter my consciousness like a thief in the night.
The real cincher scenes for me were the two bus rides that the thief character takes.
Montgomery is a bit part actor who finds himself assigned by his military reserve division to infiltrate a young debutante's home to discover the identity of her former beau, a suspected jewel thief.
Elements of the main character appear in Michael Mann's later films, like Thief (1981), Heat (1995), and so on.
John Barrymore plays a gentleman who is also the thief, Arsene Lupin.
A now wounded Davos with two kids in tow is going to be easily spotted by police, so he calls on his old friends in Paris to send help, but they have moved on since their old friend went into hiding and are not too inclined to take a risk themselves, so they send small time thief, Eric Stark (Jean Paul Belmondo) to rescue him.
Melville's direction impressed me and the cast is very good, especially Alain Delon as a very "cool" master thief.
Less a thriller than an colorful adventure with suspenseful elements, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH should not be really be compared with such Hitchcock masterpieces as VERTIGO, REAR WINDOW, or PSYCHO; it is instead more akin to such enjoyable romps as TO CATCH A THIEF and NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
Ken Loach showed the world the down-and-out flip side of Swinging London with "Poor Cow", about London woman Joy (Carol White) hooking up with a thief and having a son with him, only to see the man end up in the slammer.
Naive schoolboy, suicidal blonde, embittered car thief -- all converge with unexpected twists.
On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal.
The "Giggler", a purse thief who laughs as he's committing his crimes is also enjoyable to watch.
Oh, and we'll get the writers of Alien and Blue Thunder to write it with uncredited rewrites by the writer of Mark of the Devil, The Sex Thief and Eskimo Nell and the director of The Jonestown Monster.
So I was looking forward to his brother (and frequent collaborator) Jacob's, The Best Thief in the World.
This movie is about a cop (Ching Wan Lau) trying to catch a super-clever thief (Ekin Cheng) who blackmails an insurance company headed by a Kelly Lin.
Basically, whatever plans the cop tries the thief somehow knows them beforehand.
The first 'art' film I managed to get a hold of was Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover", which blew my mind and creative spiret into overdrive.
Randall "Memphis" Raines is a retired master car thief who is forced back into the "game" when his younger brother faces death for not filling an order for British crime boss Raymond Calitri.
Based on what I got out of the muddled mess, a terrorist or thief or something named "Tree" (Ian McShane) goes to Hawaii to steal something to do with a secret weapon.
So, they proceeded to make the Joker into an immature little kid begging for attention, the Penguin into some anime knockoff, Mr. Freeze into a super-powered jewel thief, Poison Ivy into a teenage hippie, and countless other shameful acts which are making Bob Kane roll over in his grave.
Yes, this movie is a real thief.
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