March 26 movie: Jack of Diamonds. Caper movie starring a very young George Hamilton as a cat burglar and Joseph Cotten as his mentor. I enjoyed this much more than I expected to, especially after the opening credits announced the "special guest stars" Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lilli Palmer and Carroll Baker. "Special guest stars" in a movie is usually a really bad sign. Like Mystery Science Theater bad. Thankfully, not so in this case.
I read somewhere that Jack of Diamonds was the American answer to a European genre that included Danger: Diabolik. Which I haven't seen in a long long time, so I can't comment on that. Except that when Hamilton put on his cat burglar outfit, he did kind of look like Diabolik. Also, there's a scene with Hamilton working out on gymnastics equipment in an old European mansion, which Georg said reminded him a lot of Lara Croft. (I never saw or played Tomb Raider so again, can't comment.)
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