The Light Touch
“If she knew what he was, she'd never given him her youth and innocence!”
Cast
Stewart Granger 
Pier Angeli 
George Sanders 
Kurt Kasznar 
Joseph Calleia 
Larry Keating
Credits
Written by: 
Richard Brooks
Plot
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
Sinekatalog’s take
An art thief tries to cheat his partner by claiming a stolen painting was destroyed. The caper unfolds in sunny Italian locations with a romantic edge. A pleasant but unremarkable crime romance.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.9 / 10 (562 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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