| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Alexander Golitzen George C. Webb John McCarthy Jr. John P. Austin |
| Best Costume Design, Color Jean Louis | |||
| Best Sound Waldon O. Watson (Universal City SSD) | |||
Universal Pictures
Directed by Ronald Neame
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal Vault Collection)
In a gimmicky opening, Michael Caine hires Hong Kong dancing girl Shirley MacLaine to help him carry out an art heist in an Arabic millionaire's penthouse suite. Everything goes perfectly, except that it all occurs in his imagination. The real version of the heist, the rest of the movie, does not go as predicted. For one thing, MacLaine talks in the real heist, which does not sit well with Caine. Furthermore, the rich Arab is a pretty smart guy and is not so easily fooled. Caine and MacLaine have little on-screen chemistry and their gradual love affair is ice cold. Caine, as usual, yells many of his lines as loudly as possible.
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