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Texas Mutual Insurance investigator Dave Reilly becomes suspicious of, then certain that Webster is the jewel thief, but cannot find any actual proof. In the course of the investigation, Dave and Webster develop a mutual respect that develops into a sort of friendship.
Aug 25, 2015 · Dave Reilly (Warren Oates) knows that Webster is a thief but he also can not prove it. As Dave obsessively stalks him, Webster plots one final heist. Until I saw it on TCM on Monday, I had never heard of The Thief Who Came To Dinner .
Aug 5, 2019 · Houston-based computer analyst Webster ( Ryan O’Neal) moonlights as a jewel thief, for some reason I can’t recall. His M.O. is to leave a chess piece at the crime scene. Webster tells us that he does so because “Throughout the ages great minds have turned to chess — Napoleon, Da Vinci and Cromwell.
Bored and somewhat fed up with the open corruption around him, Webster McGee decides to quit his job as a computer engineer at Houston-based Control Data Corporation. What he doesn't tell his friends and now former associates is that he does have a plan for his future: to become a jewel thief.
Jul 29, 2023 · Bored and somewhat fed up with the open corruption around him, Webster McGee decides to quit his job as a computer engineer at Houston-based Control Data Corporation. What he doesn’t tell his friends and now former associates is that he does have a plan for his future: to become a jewel thief.
Nov 15, 2014 · He even manages to get into a hot relationship with a beautiful woman (Jacqueline Bisset), but just as things start to click insurance investigator Dave Reilly (Warren Oates) gets on the case who’s determined to expose and nab Webster anyway he can.
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Texas Mutual Insurance investigator Dave Reilly is intent on identifying McGee as the jewel thief, but in the course of investigation Reilly and McGee develop a sort of friendship. Reilly must decide whether to be loyal to his job or his new friend.
