Master thief Alexander Mundy is paroled from prison by SIA special agent Noah Bain in order to steal for the United States government on special occasions.Master thief Alexander Mundy is paroled from prison by SIA special agent Noah Bain in order to steal for the United States government on special occasions.Master thief Alexander Mundy is paroled from prison by SIA special agent Noah Bain in order to steal for the United States government on special occasions.
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- TriviaAccording to the 2011-release of the complete 18-disc complete series, the bonus-material DVD provides "The King of Thieves: An Interview with Robert Wagner", starting at the 1:00 minute mark and running until the 3:00 minute mark, Wagner states that he was called into the office of Universal Studios head Lou Wasserman in 1967 and offered the role of Alexander Mundy. Wagner demurred, saying that he wasn't sure he was interested in doing TV. Wasserman promised him if that Wagner made a pilot and it didn't sell to a network, Universal would produce a theatrical release.
Wagner goes on to say in the interview that he pilot was rejected by the networks and scrapped. Wasserman fulfilled his promised by producing an entirely new rewritten 99minute-long film stocked with actors under Universal option. Wagner says the film was released in theaters in Europe under the title "Magnificent Thief".
Wagner further states that while filming another project in South America he heard that on the basis of the theatrical release, the series had been picked up as a mid-season replacement. The initial episode was an awkwardly edited 75 minute-long cut of the theatrical release. This can be seen by the evidence of the opening credits where such cast members as Kurt Kasner and Joe Louis are absent in the missing 24 minutes and the plot makes no sense from the abrupt jump after fight scene in the stewardess' apartment in Washington, DC, to the sudden shift without explanation to the Montreal Sports Expo concluding the episode. The original 99 minute-long theatrical provides viewers with three scenes that explain the transition to the Expo missing in the shorter version.
- GoofsThe enemy agents frequently refer to a collection of photos as a "cachet". This is a common mispronunciation of "cache" - which is correctly pronounced the same as "cash".
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It was a long time ago for me.
I have not watched it since my childhood, back in the early seventies. I still enjoy this too, besides Cade's County, that I just commented a couple of hours ago. I won't add much to the other comment, but I just wanted to point out something, for which I failed in the other IMDb lines: trivia, goofs, etc...At nearly the seventeenth minute of this episode, you have a short sequence where Robert Wagner draws a picture, a sort of geometric figure, for his own pleasure, I guess. If you watch closely, you'll find out that it is very similar to the one you have in the opening credits of the famous OUTER LIMITS series. Well, it is not actually the same, but it looks like it is, very similar at least. And Leslie Stevens, who directed this episode, was the major Producer, if I remember right, of the OUTER LIMITS TV show. Watch out. At the seventeenth minute.
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of A Thief Is a Thief (1968) in Australia?
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