What OLD movie is this?!


Question: What OLD movie is this!?
The plot, from my memory, is this thief keeps setting off the alarm from inside the museum (he is hiding in the cleaning closet)!. Eventually the police tell the museum to turn the alarm off and at that point he moves in and steals the object of his affection and replaces it with an empty bottle of wine!. From the 60's I think!.Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
How to Steal a Million (1966)
IMDb synopsis:
Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith), the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole's (Audrey Hepburn) objections!. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father's workshop!. She can't call the police because her father's hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man--Simon Dermott (Peter O'Toole)--back to his hotel!. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment!. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake!. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity!. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal!.
also in the cast are Eli Wallach, Charles Boyer, Marcel Dalio, and Moustache!.
IMDb review excerpts:
The 20-minute robbery at the Louvre is a very funny session, dealing with hiding in a broom closet, using a boomerang toy, and repeatedly demonstrating the new museum security system has flaws in it!.

Although this is a comic film, I found the whole idea of the way the statuette was stolen to be completely believable, more believable than the methods used in some "serious" crime movies I can think of!. Somehow I can see the art gallery's defences being broken by a cardboard boomerang thrown by a couple of people secreted in a broom cupboard, while the guard who is supposed to be searching the cupboard is using the opportunity to take a couple of swigs from a bottle he has hidden in a firebucket!.

NOTE: I think that's the empty bottle with which he replaces the statue!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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