Jewel theft is no gentlemen’s game for criminals of today
FORGET the tales of the gentlemanly burglar Arthur Raffles, the images of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant on the French Riviera in Hitchcock’s ‘To catch a Thief’ and the seductiveness and sheer frisson of the chess game between Faye Dunaway and bank robber Steve McQueen in ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’.