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Director: Bryan Forbes
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From Time Out Film Guide
Question: When is a thriller not a thriller? Answer: When it's a Forbes. A jewel thief (Caine) falls in love with the wife (Ralli) of his homosexual accomplice (Portman). She has been mentally scarred by her father's membership of the Gestapo, and her husband, a former French resistance fighter, is buggering a gigolo. And then, bugger moi, it transpires that the wife is also her husband's daughter, and they all commit suicide happily ever after. Replete with a Shirley Bassey theme tune and a 20-minute John Barry guitar concerto to accompany the robbery, this isn't a Freudian Rififi. It's rubbish.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Bryan Forbes
Producer: Paul Monash
Cast: Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, David Buck, Carlos Pierre, Leonard Rossiter, Vladek Sheybal full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 120 mins
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