What is the name of this cat burglar movie?
Question by radrickdavis: What is the name of this cat burglar movie?
I’m trying to find the name of a movie I remember watching over 15 years ago, because it was so interesting. I can remember details but not the name or any of the actors.
It’s a movie about a man who lives in a very rich estate, and he invites all of the world’s best cat burglars to compete in a contest to attempt to steal his prized treasure (I think it was a diamond), as a way of testing his state of the art security system. His estate is filled with fez-wearing armed guards, and all manor of strange traps. The three burglars can be described as a blind man, a blond bombshell, and another man who is a bit more reserved and careful about how much he reveals about himself.
The blind burglar makes the first attempt. Immediately it becomes obvious that he is not really blind, because he is using an assault rifle to snipe the guards at various locations. He makes it inside the estate, but is killed by a bullet wound.
The blond bombshell makes the second attempt, and she amazes everyone by making a sneaky entrance that only she can perform because of her amazing acrobatic skills. She manages to elude capture from all the guards, and she nearly succeeds until she steps on a tile of the floor where a land mine is hidden. She is blown to smithereens.
Finally the reserved man makes his attempt. His strategy was to wear a costume and make-up that camouflages his body and face to resemble the black and white tiled floor. By laying flat against the floor, the cameras and guards were not even aware of his presence inside the room with the diamond. Eventually his presence was suspected, and so the guards were sent to check on the diamond, but the alarms were already activated, but even the guards did not know how to bypass the dangerous traps. Several of the guards were forced to walk across the black and white trapped tiles like a chessboard, not knowing which tiles might have a land mine underneath.
The thief ends up getting away with the diamond, and I think he even runs off with the estate owner’s girlfriend.
If you know what this movie is called please let me know.
Good effort Miss Chief, but Diamonds is not the right movie. The description sounds pretty close, but I found the trailer for Diamonds on Youtube, and it’s definitely not the right movie.
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Answer by Miss Chief
Could it be that the movie you are referring to is entitled Diamond Shaft AKA Diamonds. A 1975 Israeli-American heist film starring Robert Shaw in a dual role as twin brothers. Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters are co-stars.
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.
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