The Light Touch
- IMDb link: 0043743
- IMDb rating: 5.9 (558 votes) Search
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance
- Director: Richard Brooks
- Cast: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar and others
- Release date: 6 Dec 1951
- Release year: 1951
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: scene during opening credits, caper crime, based on story, quest adventure, professional thief, painter as artist, boat accident, renaissance painting, art robbery, taormina italy
Plot
Storyline
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original and get paid both ways. To find an artist, they pick the young, beautiful, naive Anna. When Anna has doubts, Sam strings her along and then marries her and go to Sicily on their honeymoon. Anna finds out that Sam is a thief and is very disappointed. Felix finds out that Sam has the original and is out to get it. The police are also waiting along with the buyer that Sam has for the painting.
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