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...Comstock dormitory committee has made several proposals to prevent this sort of theft in the future. It suggested that Radcliffe change the locks on all of the closets in Comstock, which Gates said would be unfeasible, or that each student change the lock and pay for it herself...
Outside the Redgates' small store is a sign erected more than two years ago, when the BRA first indicated it wanted the North Harvard area for a renewal project. The sign reads: "TO HELL WITH URBAN RENEWAL, IT IS LEGALIZED THEFT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. WE SHALL DEFEND OUR HOMES WITH OUR LIVES...
Hayley and her aunt (Joan Greenwood), vacationing at a sunny village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks...
Right. Police reasoned that the great jewel theft was the work of amateurs. The famed gems were obviously unfenceable. The thieves ignored displays containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of diamonds and other gems that could be readily disposed of. Thus, with a fair certainty that they were dealing with greenhorns, the detectives called in the FBI and went to work on their own underworld contacts...
TOPKAPI. A jewel theft in Istanbul is played mostly for laughs by Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...