This is an extremely entertaining puzzle picture featuring two master film actors, Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Caine performs his role as the art thief with considerable sang froid and finesse. He thinks he has his crime caper planned out to the finest detail and it's all well under control until he flies with MacLaine to an exotic locale to steal a work of art from the supposedly richest man in the world. In his mind, she will be as cool and silent as the sculpture he's trying to purloin, following his instructions without a murmur.. But she isn't the silent type at all. She asks a lot of questions and wants to understand what's going on. She gums up the works of his plan time and again to comic effect.
MacLaine's wardrobe is stunning, worth the time to watch the movie just to see some of the dresses, wigs, and headdresses she wears. Her character works as a dancer in a Hong Kong nightclub, and MacLaine gets to use her talents and training as a dancer in this film.
The sexual politics in this film are quite dated. That might bother some viewers, but MacLaine's character resists and subverts her objectification as a woman so handily that she offsets, counterbalances the sexist assumptions in the film.
MacLaine's wardrobe is stunning, worth the time to watch the movie just to see some of the dresses, wigs, and headdresses she wears. Her character works as a dancer in a Hong Kong nightclub, and MacLaine gets to use her talents and training as a dancer in this film.
The sexual politics in this film are quite dated. That might bother some viewers, but MacLaine's character resists and subverts her objectification as a woman so handily that she offsets, counterbalances the sexist assumptions in the film.
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