Zeus

The Boy Who Stole A Million (1960)

• Director
  • Charles Crichton
• Writers
  • Niels West-Larsen(story)
  • John Eldridge(scenario)
  • Charles Crichton(scenario)
• Stars
  • Virgilio Teixeira
  • Maurice Reyna
  • Marianne Benet

  In this comedy set in Spain, Paco (Maurice Reyna) is a young boy with a part-time job as a messenger at a local bank. Paco's father drives a taxicab but has fallen deep into debt, and he loses his hack when he's unable to pay a mechanic for needed repairs. All day long, Paco hears about people getting loans from the bank to pay their bills, and, unaware of the way these things work, he "borrows" one million pesetas from the till to help his father along. It doesn't take long for someone to notice the money is missing, and not only is the bank eager to get it back, a group of local mobsters are after Paco's new fortune as well. A number of cleverly designed chase sequences enliven the second half of this story, which was shot on location in Valencia, Spain.