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A Touch of Larceny

1960 · 1h 33m · Comedy, Crime · United Kingdom, United States of America

About Money and Women and How To Get 'Em...With a Very Special Touch!

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.

Directed by
Guy Hamilton
Written by
Roger MacDougall, Ivan Foxwell, Guy Hamilton
Based on the novel by
Paul Winterton
Starring
James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Robert Flemyng
6.0Smart score

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