How to Steal a Million is a 1966 heist comedy film, directed by William Wyler and starring Peter O'Toole, Audrey Hepburn, and Hugh Griffith. It is set and filmed in France, though the characters speak entirely in English. Audrey Hepburn's clothes were designed by Givenchy. O'Toole appears as Simon Dermott, caught by Audrey Hepburn sneaking through her house clutching a forged painting. Hepburn plays Nicole Bonnet, the daughter of genius art fraud Charles Bonnet . The central theme of the movie is the recovery from a Parisian museum of a fake Cellini committed by Bonnet's grandfather, before... it is discovered and exposed as such, and is enlivened by the romantic angle between the characters played by O'Toole and Hepburn. Charles Bonnet is a professional art forger, and has just loaned a forged Cellini sculpture to a museum. One night, his daughter Nicole finds Dermott carrying one of the many paintings in their house . He says he is a high society burglar, and she accidentally shoots him in the arm with a pistol so old it does almost no harm.
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| Release date: | July 13, 1966 |
| Directed by: | William Wyler |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | William Wyler, Fred Kohlmar |
| Editor: | Robert Swink |
| Music by: | John Williams |
| Cinematography: | Charles Lang |
| Screenplay by: | George Bradshaw, Harry Kurnitz |
| Estimated budget: | $6,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |