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DVD How to Steal a Million
Audrey Hepburn was never more sleek and glamorous than in this delightful romantic caper costarring Peter O'Toole and directed by William Wyler. She's the chic daughter of a renowned art collector and covert forger (the always eccentric Hugh Griffith) who's deposited his best work, a famous statue, in a Paris museum. Trouble is, technology can now detect such forgery, so Hepburn plots to steal the statue with the help of O'Toole, an amateur thief and covert inspector. Of course, neither of them knows the whole truth about the other. They make an utterly charming couple, with O'Toole stealing the show in an uncharacteristically lighthearted turn. --Bill Desowitz
How to steal a million was a light-hearted farce starring too skilled performers in their own right. Audrey Hepburn is delightful as the sweetheart bedazzled by Peter O'Toole an expert in forged art works. The two have you rooting for them in their improbable caper. Once you remind yourself that this is all just healthy fun than you can enjoy their performances. Greed becomes almost a worthy attribute as they endeavor to outwit the perfect security system guarding unknowingly a fake artwork. It is all good fun as the security system is foiled without harming a hair on anyone's head. Dishonesty doesn't enter your mind as the caper comes to a pleasant climax. Everyone ends up with their reputation intact and some spare change jingling in their pockets. The two stars are engaging and carefree and are so effortless in their actions that they are a joy to watch. Mind candy doesn't necessarily have to rot your brain. It can give you some mindless enjoyment on a quiet night.
Audrey Shines in a Bit of Fluff
The Bonnet's are a family of art forgers. The current patriarch (Oscar winner Hugh Griffith) forges the masters. He has just sold one of his masters. The problem is that his daughter wants to break the family tradition.
To complicate things, dad has agreed to loan his Cellini Venus statue to a local Paris museum. Of course this was really made by grandfather with grandmamma as the model. While Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) has misgivings, there is little chance that the forgery will be discovered. That is until dad signs an insurance policy and this means that the statue must be authenticated.
Now there is a problem. Nicole decides to steal back the statue with the help of an art thief, Simon Dermott (Peter O'Toole) but what she doesn't know is that Dermott is a detective hired to prove that her father is a forger.
After a while Dermott agrees to plan the heist. What follows is a great comic heist.
William Wyler is a master director at this time towards the end of his career. But he proves that he still has his flair. Hepburn was at a turning point in her career and proved that even with some fluff, that she has star quality. O'Toole was early in his career and showed flair but you can tell that Hepburn held back to make him look better.
This is a fun piece of fluff and Audrey's fans will not be disappointed.
DVD EXTRAS:
Commentary by featured star Eli Wallach and director's daughter Catherine Wyler
Biography: Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady - Episode of A&E's Biography
Great movie
Great movie with an interesting plot. Audrey again, is great...
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Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model--not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Stanley Donen DVD Release Date: Released the 10 April 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Paris When It Sizzles is an unusual screwball comedy to say the least. Whether it works is another matter, but the premise and humor are interesting enough to make it enjoyable. The basic problem with the film is its two stars: William Holden and Audrey Hepburn hardly sizzle with onscreen chemistry, and Hepburn's character, Miss Simpson, falls far too easily into the hands of Holden's drunken screen writer. However, the story is an interesting play on the typical Hollywood romance, with two plotlines running in parallel to each other. Holden's Richard Benson has only two days to finish a script for an enigmatic producer (Noel Coward). Hepburn's Miss Simpson is drafted in as the typist and as the script is dictated it manifests itself on the screen, allowing the two lead... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): William Holden - Audrey Hepburn Director(s): Richard Quine DVD Release Date: Released the 10 April 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but suspense-wise it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. One wants Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Audrey Hepburn DVD Release Date: Released the 31 July 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Fairy-tale Paris doesn't get more enchanting than Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, an ode to picnics on the grass and champagne at the Ritz. Audrey Hepburn (who had already made Sabrina with Wilder) is at her best as the inexperienced cellist with a fascination for millionaire American playboy Gary Cooper. Maurice Chevalier (who else?) is Hepburn's father, a private detective with ample evidence of Cooper's crowded history of l'amour. Alongside the sheen of the romance is Wilder's unerring sense of craftsmanship; watch how inanimate objects such as a liquor tray, a white carnation, or the little dog in the suite next door are developed into sublime running gags. The age difference between the two leads has often been questioned, but perhaps this is what... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gary Cooper - Audrey Hepburn - Maurice Chevalier Director(s): Billy Wilder DVD Release Date: Released the 08 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Best known for light, entertaining musicals such as Singin' in the Rain, director Stanley Donen grew more adventurous (and less successful) in the latter stages of his career, but this edgy romantic comedy from 1967 has proven to be one of Donen's best, most enduring films. Jumping back in forth in time, the film chronicles the marital ups and downs of a stylish British couple (Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn) as they travel on various vacations over the course of their 12-year marriage. The separate vignettes combine to form a collage of joys and pains as the young couple struggles to maintain their fading marital bliss. In this regard, the film is refreshingly sophisticated in its treatment of the difficulties of long-term commitment, and with Hepburn and Finney in the leads,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Audrey Hepburn - Albert Finney Director(s): Stanley Donen DVD Release Date: Released the 01 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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