The Happy Thieves

This was adapted from Richard Condon's first novel, "The Oldest Confession," which is, especially in its later stages, considerably more serious in tone than this light-hearted caper movie. Condon hated this movie and made no secret of the fact. It was a big box-office flop.

Eve is driving a Triumph TR3A in all of the exterior shots during the opening theft sequence. When Jimmy hands her the tube with the rolled up painting, the closeup shot of Eve is across the hood of a different car, now an MGA. The following shots also show the dash of an MGA and then she drives off in the far too quiet TR3A again. The closeups were likely done in studio using the MGA. These are similar cars but not the same.