When people speak of Audrey Hepburn movies or Peter O'Toole movies or even William Wyler movies this is the one they never mention. You'd think, then, it might be a dog of a picture but it isn't. As you would expect from Wyler it's beautifully mounted, (it looks a million and more), and Hepburn and O'Toole are deft light comedians and the supporting cast, (Charles Boyer, Eli Wallach and the great Hugh Griffith), rise to the occasion.
Griffith is the art forger and Hepburn is his daughter and they are about to be rumbled by O'Toole and Boyer but as happens in sophisticated rom-coms of this sort Hepburn and O'Toole fall in love. The plot, which involves a staged robbery planned by Hepburn, though quite ingeniously staged, is as light as air, (this isn't a great heist movie), and the script by Harry Kurnitz is hardly full of scintillating dialogue but Wyler was one of, if not the, greatest of all actor's directors and here he had a top-notch cast who were obviously enjoying themselves. The Paris locations are nice, too.
Griffith is the art forger and Hepburn is his daughter and they are about to be rumbled by O'Toole and Boyer but as happens in sophisticated rom-coms of this sort Hepburn and O'Toole fall in love. The plot, which involves a staged robbery planned by Hepburn, though quite ingeniously staged, is as light as air, (this isn't a great heist movie), and the script by Harry Kurnitz is hardly full of scintillating dialogue but Wyler was one of, if not the, greatest of all actor's directors and here he had a top-notch cast who were obviously enjoying themselves. The Paris locations are nice, too.