How to Steal a Million

Really, William Wyler had the Lubitsch Touch. Billy Wilder liked to tell a story of him leaving the funeral of Lubitsch alongside Wyler. In the car, Wilder said, “No more Lubitsch.” Wyler responded, “Worse. No more Lubitsch movies.” Knowing how much Wilder idolized Lubitsch, it seems more natural that he would have said it rather than Wyler, but nearing the end of Wyler’s body of work and having seen three successful efforts to replicate the Lubitsch Touch, it actually kind of makes sense th...