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Director:
Arthur Hiller
Writers:
Howard Fast (novel)
George Wells (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 November 1966 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime more
Tagline:
The worlds most beautiful bank-robber more
Plot:
Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000. full summary | full synopsis
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I almost thought I just dreamed this.. more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)

Natalie Wood ... Penelope Elcott
Ian Bannen ... James B. Elcott
Dick Shawn ... Dr. Gregory Mannix

Peter Falk ... Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee

Jonathan Winters ... Professor Klobb
Lila Kedrova ... Princess Sadaba
Lou Jacobi ... Ducky
Norma Crane ... Mildred Halliday
Arthur Malet ... Salvation Army Major Higgins
Jerome Cowan ... Bank manager
Arlene Golonka ... Honeysuckle Rose
Amzie Strickland ... Miss Serena
Bill Gunn ... Sergeant Rothschild
Carl Ballantine ... Boom Boom
Iggie Wolfington ... Store Owner
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Additional Details

Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Company:
Euterpe more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
There seems to be a scene cut from the movie, perhaps a fantasy sequence. Some lobby cards show Natalie Wood and her husband in the film in their beds. The husband looks bored and uninterested in Natalie. In others from the same scene he reads a newspaper or has a boardroom meeting while Natalie sits in bed looking gorgeous. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the opening scenes, Penelope is shown riding in the back seat of a 1960/1961 Ford taxicab. Moments later she gets out of a 1966 Ford taxicab. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The King of the Duplicators (1968) more
Soundtrack:
The Sun Is Gray more

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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
I almost thought I just dreamed this.., 4 November 2003
Author: googlemorf from Maryland, USA

When I was six years old this was on TV. I saw the beginning and was sent to bed. I just remember the great theme song with the cartoon credits ( I love cartoon credits.. EVERY movie should have cartoon credits.. do you realize how much better BLAIR WITCH PROJECT would be with cartoon credits?), the robbery and Jonathan Winters chasing Natalie Wood around. I remember thinking, "Why is he doing that?" After all these years I am finally watching it again. It is kinda surreal.. Like a spoof of wacky sixties farces. Wood plays a kleptomaniac. I await the remake with Wynona Ryder.

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