A Touch of Larceny (1960)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 4, 1960Release Date
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 4, 1960Release Date
Plot.
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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Cast & Crew.
James Mason
Cmdr. Max Easton
George Sanders
Sir Charles Holland
Vera Miles
Virginia Killain
Oliver Johnston
Minister
Robert Flemyng
Cmdr. John Larkin
William Kendall
Tom
Duncan Lamont
1st Special Branch man Gregson
Harry Andrews
Capt. Graham
Peter Barkworth
Sub Lt. Brown
Martin Stephens
John Holland
Rachel Gurney
Clara Holland
Guy Hamilton
Director
Waveney Lee
Marcia Holland
Charles Carson
Robert Holland
Paul Winterton
Writer
Roger MacDougall
Writer
Junia Crawford
Susan
Henry B. Longhurst
Club Member (as Henry Longhurst)
Ivan Foxwell
Writer
Roger Maxwell
Club Member
Gerald Case
Club Member
Donald Bisset
Club Member
Philip Green
Composer
John Wilcox
Cinematographer
Desmond Roberts
Club Member
Alan Osbiston
Editor
Reginald Smith
Club Steward
Rosemary Dorken
WREN Officer
MacDonald Parke
Jason Parrish (as Macdonald Parke)
Mavis Villiers
Adele Parrish
Ernest Clark
Cmdr. Bates
Alexander Archdale
Local Doctor (uncredited)
Basil Dignam
Lt. Cmdr. Evans at P.R.O. (uncredited)
Mabel Etherington
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Gordon Harris
2nd Special Branch Man Jones (uncredited)
Barbara Hicks
Miss Price (uncredited)
John Horsley
1st Editor (uncredited)
Frederick Kelsey
Club Member (uncredited)
John Le Mesurier
Head of the Admiralty (uncredited)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
2nd Editor (uncredited)
Richard Marner
Russian Officer Cornered by Max Easton (uncredited)
William Mervyn
Capt. Balfour (uncredited)
Andre Mikhelson
2nd Russian Officer (uncredited)
John More
American General at Embassy Party (uncredited)
Dickie Owen
2nd Policeman (uncredited)
Frederick Piper
Hall Porter (uncredited)
Pat Ryan
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Stanley Zevic
1st Russian Officer (uncredited)
Media.
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Wiki.
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.