How to Steal a Million
1966 film by William Wyler
How to Steal a Million is a 1966 American heist comedy film directed by William Wyler and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, and Charles Boyer. The film is set and was filmed in Paris, though the characters speak entirely in English.
Hepburn's clothes were designed by Givenchy.
Plot
Prominent Paris art collector Charles Bonnet forges and sells famous artists' paintings. His disapproving daughter, Nicole, constantly fears his being caught. Late one night at their mansion, Nicole encounters a burglar, Simon Dermott, holding her father's forged "Van Gogh". She threatens him with an antique gun that accidentally fires, slightly wounding his arm. Wanting to avoid an investigation that would uncover her father's fake masterpieces, Nicole does not contact the police, and instead drives the charming Simon to his lavish hotel in his expensive sports car, then takes a cab home.
Charles is lending the Kléber-Lafayette Museum his renowned "Cellini" Venus statuette for an exhibition. The statue was actually sculpted by his father.
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