Astounding film about a heist with pretty humor. A thriller/adventure/comedy/suspense movie with a great main and support cast, such as: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel, Arnold Moss, John Abbott and Maurice Marsac. The film talks a hold-up carried out by a peculiar couple. An English cat burglar (Michael Caine) needs a Eurasian dancer's (Shirley MacLaine) help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof plans have a way of backfiring. Once Caine's careful plan is put in operation, however, everything begins to unravel. Shirley MacLaine raises Michael Caine!.What they do together is a crime!."Alfie" Meets Shirley. Go ahead - tell the ending - it's too hilarious to keep secret - but please don't tell the beginning!
From the beginning until ending the good mood and humor is continued. The plot is very amusing and the final has got an extraordinary surprise. In the movie there's comedy, thrills, tongue-in-cheek, tense and results to be very bemusing. The highlight and great climax, of course, is the heist which is developed with imposing tension and intrigue. Michael Caine's first Hollywood movie casts him as a burglar who develops a Topkapi-style scheme to rob a valuable statue with MacLaine as the lure and Lom as the cunning owner. Here MacLaine is delicious as the mysterious girl who slides between bars as a gymnastic eel and Herbert Lom is perfect as the devious owner. Remade in 2012 ¨Gambit¨ by Michael Hoffman with Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman and Tom Courtenay.
The motion picture was competent and professionally directed by Ronal Neame. Ronald Neame's shooting frays away the nerves, the cutting is commendable and the script keeps giving out with twists and turns to wind us back to finger-nail level. A British filmmaker who, over the years , worked as assistant director, cinematographer , producer , writer and ultimately director. During the 1920s , Neame started working at famous Elstree Studios. One of his first jobs was assistant cameraman for Alfred Hitchcock on Blackmail (1929), the first talking picture made in England . Ronald Neame became a cinematographer during the 1930s. In 1942, he and sound designer C. C. Stevens received a special effect Oscar nomination for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) by the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger team. In 1944, after working together on In Which We Serve (1942), Neame, David Lean and producer Anthony Havelock-Allan formed a production company, Cineguild. The screenplays for its films Brief Encounter (1945) and Great Expectations (1946) received best writing Oscar nominations. Neame was a craftsman with considerable success. He made the most successful disaster movie : The Poseidon Adventure. And directed all kinds of genres as Thillers , Drama , Suspense , including notorious titles , such as : Odessa File , Hopscotch , Horse's Mouth , Windom's way , Scrooge , Gambit , Chalk Garden , First Monday in October , being his best one : Tunes of Glory. Rating : 7/10 . Better than average .The yarn will appeal to comedy enthusiasts and robbery genre fans . Rating : Above average . Well worth watching. One of the most suspenseful edge-of-seat thrillers the 60s financed.
From the beginning until ending the good mood and humor is continued. The plot is very amusing and the final has got an extraordinary surprise. In the movie there's comedy, thrills, tongue-in-cheek, tense and results to be very bemusing. The highlight and great climax, of course, is the heist which is developed with imposing tension and intrigue. Michael Caine's first Hollywood movie casts him as a burglar who develops a Topkapi-style scheme to rob a valuable statue with MacLaine as the lure and Lom as the cunning owner. Here MacLaine is delicious as the mysterious girl who slides between bars as a gymnastic eel and Herbert Lom is perfect as the devious owner. Remade in 2012 ¨Gambit¨ by Michael Hoffman with Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman and Tom Courtenay.
The motion picture was competent and professionally directed by Ronal Neame. Ronald Neame's shooting frays away the nerves, the cutting is commendable and the script keeps giving out with twists and turns to wind us back to finger-nail level. A British filmmaker who, over the years , worked as assistant director, cinematographer , producer , writer and ultimately director. During the 1920s , Neame started working at famous Elstree Studios. One of his first jobs was assistant cameraman for Alfred Hitchcock on Blackmail (1929), the first talking picture made in England . Ronald Neame became a cinematographer during the 1930s. In 1942, he and sound designer C. C. Stevens received a special effect Oscar nomination for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) by the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger team. In 1944, after working together on In Which We Serve (1942), Neame, David Lean and producer Anthony Havelock-Allan formed a production company, Cineguild. The screenplays for its films Brief Encounter (1945) and Great Expectations (1946) received best writing Oscar nominations. Neame was a craftsman with considerable success. He made the most successful disaster movie : The Poseidon Adventure. And directed all kinds of genres as Thillers , Drama , Suspense , including notorious titles , such as : Odessa File , Hopscotch , Horse's Mouth , Windom's way , Scrooge , Gambit , Chalk Garden , First Monday in October , being his best one : Tunes of Glory. Rating : 7/10 . Better than average .The yarn will appeal to comedy enthusiasts and robbery genre fans . Rating : Above average . Well worth watching. One of the most suspenseful edge-of-seat thrillers the 60s financed.