How to Steal a Million (1966)

William Wyler, the director who made Audrey Hepburn a star with Roman Holiday, and later directed her in a well made downer called The Children's Hour, teamed up with the muse for a third and final time in How to Steal a Million, a chic heist comedy co-staring a then very in demand Peter O'Toole. The films a light caper, set in Paris, about the two leads efforts to steal a purported  renaissance sculpture before testing can prove it a forgery, and possibly land Hepburn's pop (Hugh Griffith) in jail. There is a nice, easy going chemistry between Hepburn and O'Toole, which is really the whole point of the film. It's actually a bit boring for the first half, but once the caper proper gets going its thoroughly enchanting and cleaver. Eli Wallach plays an American business man smitten by both Hepburn and the statue. I'm pretty sure I saw part of this film as a young child, there is a sequence where O'Toole uses a boomerang to trip some security sensors and it triggered a faint memory, I would have been very into anything with a boomerang in it between the ages of say 3 and 7. ***1/2