Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's giant banking, commercial and industrial corporations. In its expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...
...STEAL A MILLION. This elegant comedy about a museum heist displays Audrey Hepburn as a would-be burglar and Peter O'Toole as her accomplice...
...Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married girl friend in the building. Not impressed, Lasky frisked Peters and felt something that "could have been a knife." What Lasky actually found was an envelope containing burglar's tools-for possession of which Peters was duly convicted...
...guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" now means that any search made without the authority of a warrant is "reasonable only if conducted as incident to a lawful arrest" based on probable cause-something Patrolman Lasky admittedly did not have until after his frisk produced not a weapon but burglar's tools...
That fawnlike look is Audrey's special domain as a comedienne, and her partner in crime on this elegant occasion is Peter O'Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...