The Caper of the Golden Bulls

I was quite surprised to see a 6.0 IMDB picture with so much real quality. I thought it was quite excellent and very well crafted for a heist picture. The 2 female leads are really visually stunning and do their part to enhance this picture with quality performances. In fact, Giovanni Ralli really has the most essential role in the film as the beautiful seductress and recruiting specialist for this team of ex-WW2 compatriots who re-unite & plan a heist at the Pamplona Nationale Bank. Stephen Boyd is debonair and very charming in the lead as the man sort of blackmailed into leading the old team by the former beauty, Ms Ralli. Yvette Mimieux is luxuriously lovely playing his girlfriend, who gets pulled into the plot when Boyd's character let's the cat out of the bag. The entire cast of characters from many former film adventures keep a light comedic balance, while the beautiful Spanish setting in fabled Pamplona comes off perfectly. Easily 8 stars. Anyone should really enjoy this one!

The Caper of the Golden Bulls has quite an elaborate heist, but it and its characters flimsy. Two much effort and risk involved to just be laughed off and not followed up I think. Lead character Peter looks like he could be a member of the Wiggles. Both female characters likable enough.

This is a very enjoyable movie, especially for fans of Stephen Boyd and Yvette Mimieux. It isn't grim or gloomy or dark; it has that polish and cheerful charm that distinguished a number of fine 1960's films, such as Charade, Arabesque, Our Man in Marrakesh and The Prize. It may not be quite at the level of the best of those, but it was made in the same spirit: some adventure, a handsome leading man and lady, but without the huge, over-the-top effects, big budgets and set piece scenes of the James Bond movies, with which other films such as this could not compete. Fans should know that as of now, there is both a Blu-ray and dvd available of this movie. This is especially welcome news for Stephen Boyd fans! Boyd is very good in his role here and is a pleasure to watch. This is a classy movie worth seeing.

I love this movie from the sixties, plenty of charm, not a bloody crime film, but a good old days heist flick, another version of RIFIFI or TOPKAPI, the heist scheme with the fewest talk whilst the robbers operate. Yes, this is a film which is not comedy, no sir, but light heart oriented, not a dark and downbeat film noir as RIFIFI was. I read the Bill Mc Givern's book and this film is rather faithful to the novel spirit. I watch it for the third time in decades and am surprised not to have been bored at all. I would say that kind of films never grow old; but that's my own opinion. Maybe the setting and the bull run sequence contribute to this feeling; not so many features provide such an atmosphere, so particular, so specific. A good old gem from a lost era.