{"id":3379,"date":"2014-03-14T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2014-03-14T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:57:11","slug":"the-master-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/reviews\/the-master-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Master Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3795\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/master_touch2.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3795\" alt=\"The Master Touch, with Kirk Douglas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/master_touch2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/master_touch2.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/master_touch2-57x88.jpg 57w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Master Touch, with Kirk Douglas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Master Touch<\/strong> was a high profile heist film from the reliable Michele Lupo. Its big coup was in managing to get Kirk Douglas, a top American star who had previously had little involvement with Italian cinema, to play the protagonist, Steve Wallace, a gentleman robber back on the streets after a short spell in jail. Tempted out of retirement by the prospect of breaking into an apparently impregnable vault stocked up with millions of dollars &#8211; natch &#8211; he hooks up with a young trapeze artist, Marco (Giuliano Gemma). Their plan is to set Wallace up as the prime suspect for another robbery while he&#8217;s actually breaking into the aforementioned vault. Things, however, don&#8217;t work out as planned.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really enjoyable film, much more serious and gloomy than you&#8217;d expect from the normally lightweight Lupo. It&#8217;s got some great cinematography and a low-key but effective Morricone score; the central heist is well handled and there&#8217;s an excellent car chase through the streets of Hamburg. Kirk Douglas looks very dapper and doesn&#8217;t seem as embarrassed as some American imports did &#8211; he&#8217;d return to Italy for <strong>Holocaust 2000<\/strong> &#8211; and there&#8217;s good support from Gemma and Florinda Bolkan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master Touch was a high profile heist film from the reliable Michele Lupo starring Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma and Florinda Bolkan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1137,247,1162,1161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}