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...detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss, 72, collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other suspects' phones, Bailey got the tipster to agree to tape-record his bugging conversations with the inspectors, who have not yet been able to get an indictment...
...seem as boisterous as his art. He reportedly beat his first wife and wore out his second, having an aggregate of some dozen children. Like Rembrandt, he eventually went bankrupt, since, for all his subsequent popularity, he never during his life commanded the prices paid to Bartholomeus van der Heist, whose stiff portraiture was the rage...
Kotch's lame-brain mission on the coast is to heist a bank at Los Angeles International Airport. His tiny task force bides time until all the security chaps for miles around are pooling sweat over the arrival of a Soviet Premier. Nothing goes off on schedule except the robbery itself, and that's a pittance, for it turns out that the hero might have got richer going straight...
...STEAL A MILLION. A clever museum heist is pulled off with slick, professional comedy by Audrey Hepburn and her second-story pal, Peter O'Toole...
...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...