Jack of Diamonds

Nov 10, 1967

1h 48m

★ 4.2

From the rooftops of Paris to the penthouses of New York...he takes only the best jewels and the most beautiful women!

Overview

The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Bavaria Film

Harris Associates

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Jeffrey Hill

George Hamilton

Ace

Joseph Cotten

Olga Vodkine

Marie Laforêt

Nicolai Vodkine

Maurice Evans

Wilhelm Von Schenk

Wolfgang Preiss

Helmut

Karl Lieffen

Brügger

Alexander Hegarth

Lieutenant Gilder

Charlie Hickman

Geisling

Eduard Linkers

Police Sergeant

Al Hoosmann

Kauffmann

Bob Cheslock

Carroll Baker

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.

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