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...perfect crime in this picture is described twice. First time around, the criminal (Michael Caine) confidently imagines how it will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner...
...Hour of 13 (MGM) casts Peter Lawford as a Raffle-ish amateur cracksman who steals both outsize emeralds and ladies' hearts. Lawford has to interrupt these interesting pursuits temporarily when the police suspect him of being the Terror, a nasty fellow who slinks about skewering London bobbies on a three-foot sword. Disguising himself as a bobby, Lawford gives Scotland Yard an invaluable assist in tracking down the Terror, thereby further endearing himself to the police commissioner's beautiful daughter (Dawn Addams), whom he has already captivated with such gems of repartee as: "I think if a jewel...
...diffident Bob Benchley got a diffident start with the Curtis Publishing Co. ("They stayed in Philadelphia in their small way, and I went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life and the New Yorker. Though no mean cracksman ("I've got to get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini"), he shunned the out-&-out gag, preferred to get his laughs while puttering among the minor catastrophes and major banalities of everyday life...
...current crack about Mr. Attlee by a master cracksman, see PEOPLE...
Wunderkind. In San Diego, a cracksman who had twirled the knob of a market safe at midnight, had opened it, and made off with four rolls of pennies, admitted his age to police...