A Touch of Larceny
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.
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A former naval war hero (James Mason) fakes his defection to the Soviet Union in a crazy scheme to make money by later suing the newspapers for libeling him. He needs the money to impress the sophisticated American woman (Vera Miles) with whom he has fallen in love. But things do not go quite according to plan. Based on the novel "The Megstone Plot" by Andrew Garve. James Mason as Cmdr. Max Easton George Sanders as Sir Charles Holland Vera Miles as Virginia Killain Oliver Johnston as Minister Robert Flemyng as Cmdr. John Larkin William Kendall as Tom Duncan Lamont as Gregson Harry Andrews as Capt. Graham Peter Barkworth as Sub Lt. Brown Rachel Gurney as Clara Holland I colorized this using AI software that doesn't always get the colors right, but I think it looks fairly natural. Hopefully a more professional job will be done someday. If you have a request or a comment for me, please go to the Colorized Movies Forum at https://archive.org/details/colorized-movies?tab=forum
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- Director
- Guy Hamilton
- Starring
- James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Robert Flemyng, Oliver Johnston, William Kendall, Duncan Lamont, Harry Andrews
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