A Touch of Larceny
Comedy
Crime
About Money and Women and How To Get 'Em...With a Very Special Touch!
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
1960-02-04
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Cast
Director
Guy Hamilton
James Mason as Cmdr. Max Easton
George Sanders as Sir Charles Holland
Vera Miles as Virginia Killain
Robert Flemyng as Cmdr. John Larkin
Oliver Johnston as Minister
Duncan Lamont as 1st Special Branch man Gregson
Harry Andrews as Capt. Graham
Peter Barkworth as Sub Lt. Brown
Rachel Gurney as Clara Holland
Martin Stephens as John Holland
Charles Carson as Robert Holland
Junia Crawford as Susan
Roger Maxwell as Club Member
Donald Bisset as Club Member
Desmond Roberts as Club Member
MacDonald Parke as Jason Parrish (as Macdonald Parke)
Mavis Villiers as Adele Parrish
Ernest Clark as Cmdr. Bates
Basil Dignam as Lt. Cmdr. Evans at P.R.O. (uncredited)
Gordon Harris as 2nd Special Branch Man Jones (uncredited)
Barbara Hicks as Miss Price (uncredited)
John Horsley as 1st Editor (uncredited)
John Le Mesurier as Head of the Admiralty (uncredited)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt as 2nd Editor (uncredited)
Richard Marner as Russian Officer Cornered by Max Easton (uncredited)
William Mervyn as Capt. Balfour (uncredited)
Frederick Piper as Hall Porter (uncredited)
Pat Ryan as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)