Diamonds for Breakfast (film)
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Directed byChristopher Morahan
Written byErnesto Gastaldi
Ronald Harwood
Pierre Rouve
N. F. Simpson
Ronald Harwood
Pierre Rouve
N. F. Simpson
Produced byCarlo Ponti
StarringMarcello Mastroianni
| Diamonds for Breakfast | |
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| Directed by | Christopher Morahan |
| Written by | Ernesto Gastaldi Ronald Harwood Pierre Rouve N. F. Simpson |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Cinematography | Gerry Turpin |
| Edited by | Peter Tanner |
| Music by | Norman Kay |
Production companies | ABC Films Bridge Films |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.3 million[1] |
Diamonds for Breakfast is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Christopher Morahan.[2][3] The film opened in London but was never released in the US. It recorded an overall loss of $1,445,000.[1]
Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno is a hard-up Russian aristocrat who owns a London boutique. At an art exhibition he slips on a banana skin and, recovering, hears the ghosts of his ancestors suggesting he steals the imperial diamonds. He assembles a team of female accomplices and posing as models they steal jewels by attaching them to carrier pigeons. However Nikolas's aunt ambushes the pigeons, and loses everything gambling in Monte Carlo.
Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni as Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno
- Rita Tushingham as Bridget Rafferty
- Elaine Taylor as Victoria
- Margaret Blye as Honey
- Francesca Tu as Jeanne Silkingers
- The Karlins as triplets
- Warren Mitchell as Popov
- Nora Nicholson as Anastasia Petrovna
- Bryan Pringle as Police Sergeant
- Leonard Rossiter as Inspector Dudley
- Bill Fraser as bookseller
- David Horne as Duke of Windemere
- Charles Lloyd-Pack as butler
- Anne Blake as Nashka
- Ian Trigger as Popov's assistant
Production
The film was financed by the ABC network.[4]
