A Touch of Larceny
A Touch of Larceny
Release: 1960-02-04
·Runtime: 93m
·★ 5.9
Comedy
Crime
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Ivan Foxwell Productions
Cast
Harry Andrews
as Capt. Graham
John Le Mesurier
as Head of the Admiralty (uncredited)
William Mervyn
as Capt. Balfour (uncredited)
Frederick Piper
as Hall Porter (uncredited)
Duncan Lamont
as 1st Special Branch man Gregson
Donald Bisset
as Club Member
Rachel Gurney
as Clara Holland
Charles Carson
as Robert Holland
Roger Maxwell
as Club Member
Barbara Hicks
as Miss Price (uncredited)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as 2nd Editor (uncredited)
Ernest Clark
as Cmdr. Bates
Basil Dignam
as Lt. Cmdr. Evans at P.R.O. (uncredited)
James Mason
as Cmdr. Max Easton
Peter Barkworth
as Sub Lt. Brown
Martin Stephens
as John Holland
Richard Marner
as Russian Officer Cornered by Max Easton (uncredited)
Junia Crawford
as Susan
Desmond Roberts
as Club Member
Oliver Johnston
as Minister
Mavis Villiers
as Adele Parrish
Gordon Harris
as 2nd Special Branch Man Jones (uncredited)
George Sanders
as Sir Charles Holland
Vera Miles
as Virginia Killain
Robert Flemyng
as Cmdr. John Larkin
MacDonald Parke
as Jason Parrish (as Macdonald Parke)
John Horsley
as 1st Editor (uncredited)
