How To Steal A Million

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: No
Watched With: Myself

As this film started I read on the opening credits music by Johnny Williams. You can recognise phrases and bits of orchestration that is undeniably a John Williams score. It's was a delight to hear an early work from the master.

The film was enjoyable enough. Excruciatingly slow paced for a heist movie. Maybe I'm one of those annoying modern ADD kids that can't concentrate for more than 2 minutes on something at a time and doesn't appreciate old film. But I generally do. I think this is just a slow paced film that overstays its welcome a bit.

I would never have picked Peter O'Toole for a role like this. He's perfectly fine in the charismatic leading romantic interest role (aka the George Clooney), I just always see him as either a dramatic Shakespeare epic actor or a crazy old man. Audrey Hepburn is playing Audrey Hepburn again. Eli Wallach, is he in every movie ever? Yes.

This film takes its time setting up the romance, the characters and the elements of the heist. The actual heist itself also seems to go on forever, most of it spent crammed in a small cupboard which conveniently forces the two characters together. There are a few neat things in the heist but not much that we haven't seen before.

It's enjoyable enough. A fine was to pass a lazy Friday afternoon but nothing about this film will linger with me.