The Thief Who Came to Dinner
“Webster and Laura took everything they wanted ... each other ... and a diamond worth $6.000.000.”
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Studio
Bud Yorkin Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Thief Who Came to Dinner performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$3.4M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$522K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Romance) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Webster McGee
Ryan O'Neal
Webster McGee
Laura Keaton
Jacqueline Bisset
Laura Keaton
Dave Reilly
Warren Oates
Dave Reilly
Jackie Johnson
Jill Clayburgh
Jackie Johnson
Gene Henderling
Charles Cioffi
Gene Henderling
Deams
Ned Beatty
Deams
Zukovsky
Austin Pendleton
Zukovsky
Dynamite Hector
Gregory Sierra
Dynamite Hector
Ted
Michael Murphy
Ted
Edmund Lasker
John Hillerman
Edmund Lasker
Insurance Man
Alan Oppenheimer
Insurance Man
Mrs. Donner
Margaret Fairchild
Mrs. Donner
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