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Summary: The Favorite Movie from Audrey !!!!
Review: This is my most favorite movie from Audrey.
Peter O'Toole's blue eye is beuty enough to compare with
Audrey's, yet, nobody would watch this movie for his name,
I suppose. I was charmed by his humor, not by his appearances.
This movie is also a good lesson to know the capital state of
Paris.
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Summary: The best!
Review: This is one of Audrey Hepburn's best movies! She is wonderful and definintly the "Fairest" lady of all. Peter O'Toole and Audrey make a great couple!
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Summary: WHERE IS THE DVD?
Review: This is one of the ALL-TIME great caper flicks, almost flawless in all regards. Considering the amount of dross that's released weekly, the fact that there's no DVD (and, believe me, this one deserves the full treatment) is criminal. Request it, by all means!
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Summary: How to Steal a Million is the best!
Review: This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Audrey plays a girl who's father copies Van Gough oils. One night, as she is reading in bed, Audrey hears a sound from downstairs. It is a 'burglar'! However, the two fall in love and decide to try to stop anyone from finding out about her father's profession. This movie never gets old. Hilarious!
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Summary: Audrey and Peter, luv you both
Review: This is one of the greatest Audrey Hepburn movies ever made. Peter O'Toole is fabulous and very charming in this movie. I first saw this movie when it came out on AMC cable TV channel, and to tell you the truth I couldn't keep my eyes off my Tv screen for the long 2 hrs,30 minutes that the movie ran. This movie was incredibly intriguing and the plot was just fabulous.
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Summary: Fun
Review: This movie has a slightly dated feel now, but it is fun and charming, and has two of the greatest movie stars ever in the leads. I would have loved to have been with Hepburn and O'Toole at meal-times just to hear how such attractive charming people interacted with each other OFF camera. O'Toole is one of the few great stars who can do both drama ("Lawrence of Arabia") and comedy (this, and "My Favorite Year") brilliantly. I think he's the greatest actor ever. If you thought him charming in this, see "My Favorite Year". People often comment that O'Toole aged prematurely with his drinking and chain-smoking, but I actually prefer him with a bit of mileage on him, as in "My Favorite Year." That movie has slow sections, but when O'Toole is onscreen, you'll see the best example of comic genius and brilliance at work. If you haven't seen "How to Steal a Million" see it. If you have seen it, and haven't seen "My Favorite Year," you have GOT to see that one. You'll like it if you liked this one.
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Summary: How to steal a million laughs
Review: This movie has all the makings of a great classic from the rare starstess Audrey Hepburn playing Nicole Bonnett, a daugther of a artist famous for the masterpieces he didn't create, but rather copied. As like all great Audrey Hepburn movies, a great leading actor shines along with her. In this video, Peter O'Toole plays a professional thief who first meets Nicole in the act of his duty. But later, Nicole would request the skills of this same thief in order to steal a piece of merchantise that may incriminate her father's career. It's a movie you would surely find a reason to laugh. Well-played, creative piece of film history exists in 'How to steal a Million Dollars'.
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Summary: One of the best Audrey movies ever made
Review: This sparkling gem of a romantic comedy proves once again how wondeful Audrey Hepburn is. It's the story of a wealthy painter and his daugher, Nicole. Nicole (played by Audrey) encounters a would-be society thief (O'Toole). Their unlikely romance has its delightful twists and turns.
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Summary: Breath of fresh air with Audrey Hepburn at her most chic
Review: Was there ever another actress to compare with Audrey Hepburn? She combined all the ideal qualities of what a skilled, beautiful, and totally charming actress should be in the one gorgeous package. Indeed in William Wyler's sophisticated heist film "How to Steal a Million",she has never been more gorgeous and appealing while displaying that totally unique and special talent that was solely her own and has never been duplicated by another actress. Released in 1966 at the height of the "mod" period, "How to Steal a Million", in alot of ways is very much of it's time and this probably explains why this film is perhaps not as well known as other films of both Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. This is unfortunate as the pair make a superb romantic comedy team and combine excellently in this slick and very chic story set in the most beautiful of cities, fashionable Paris. "How to Steal a Million", tells the story of Nicole Bonnet (Hepburn) who is the glamourous and very mod daughter of art collector Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith is a delightfully eccentric performance) who is what could be described as a lovable rascal and spends his time forging great art which he then sells to unsuspecting but wealthy art enthusiasts. Complications however arise when one of Monsieur Bonnet's "masterpieces", a statue of Venus supposedly carved by famed Italian artisan Cellini in the sixteenth century, but in reality a modern work by Nicole's grandfather, is put on display in a Paris Museum. The problem however here is that for insurance purposes the work must be inspected by a world famous expert on authentic works of art and their dating which would threaten to expose Ms. Bonnet for the fraud that he is,lovable or otherwise! Nicole concocts a wild scheme with the collaboration of supposed society thief Davis Leland (Peter O'Toole in a marvellously sophisticated performance),to steal the statue from the museum before her father is exposed as a fraud. Along the way the pair, in between scampering around museum interiors and hiding out in broom closets find themselves falling in love. What unravels is a totally delightful caper comedy with marvellous screen chemistry between Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in their only appearance together. Audrey is beyond comparison as the chic Givenchy lady about town who gets involved in the museum robbery. Her outfits are a total dream, and her mod hairstyles and sunglasses are just right for this charming 1960's story with its rich Parisian settings. Peter O'Toole displays a great talent for sophisticated comedy and as is often the case in such stories turns out to be not exactly what he first seems to be when we first encounter him trying to "steal" one of Charles Bonnet "Van Gogh's". The cast of "How to Steal a Million", is rounded out in a very funny performance by Eli Wallach as a fanatical art collector who has his sights set on the "Cellini" Venus and wants it no matter what lengths he has to go to, even proposing marriage to a very reluctant Nicole! Veteran heart throb Charles Boyer provides the necessary authentic French atmosphere in a small role as Charles De Solnay , O'Toole's boss who has his own interest in the Bonnet family. The film is a rich snapshot of all things beautiful and sophisticated in 1966 Paris from the wonderful on location photgraphy, Audrey's stunning fashions, all the beautiful art on display and museum interiors. The film has been accused of being "too perfect" in some respects but the story never pretends to take itself seriously and its look is what stays in the mind. Indeed I have a hard time imagining such a fashionable couple as Hepburn and O'Toole in any other setting! Directed at a nice pace by veteran William Wyler who guided Audrey Hepburn through the classic "Roman Holiday", and the sadly underappreciated "The Children's Hour", Wyler manages to combine romance with high slap stick as seen in the very amusing scenes when the alarm protecting the Venus is set off prompting an almost "Keystone Cops" routine by the French Police arriving time after time for what are false alarms at the museum. With the absense of elegant comedy with beautifully dressed people in elegant settings nowadays movies like this one are like a glass of water in the desert. I love most sophisticated comedies and while not the best ever made, if you love Paris and Audrey Hepburn like I do you can't help but be enchanted by William Wyler's "How to Steal a Million". Open the champagne and sit back and enjoy!
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