A Touch of Larceny (1959)

Directed by

Guy Hamilton

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British naval commander schemes to fake his own defection to the Soviet Union as a way to win back his ex fiancee and clear his debts. His plan spirals into complications with a newspaper reporter and government officials.

lightheartedwittyplayfulbreezyamusingcleverunderstated

What happens

A Touch of Larceny is a 1959 black-and-white comedy film produced by Ivan Foxwell, directed by Guy Hamilton, and starring James Mason, George Sanders and Vera Miles. The film co-stars Harry Andrews, Rachel Gurney and John Le Mesurier, and is based on the 1956 novel The Megstone Plot by Paul Winterton, written under the pseudonym Andrew Garve. A Touch of Larceny was nominated for the BAFTA award for Best British Screenplay, but lost to The Angry Silence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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