Jewel Thief run, "Boxofficeindia.com" reported that the film had managed to gross 3,50,00,000 with a net of and, adjusted to inflation is about . Subsequently, "Jewel Thief" was declared a hit at the box office. It ended up as the sixth highest-grossing film of 1967 and thirty-fifth highest-grossing film of the decade. The movie was reported to be influenced by three movies of Alfred Hitchcock in terms of plot, setting and characterisation - "To Catch a Thief", "Vertigo" and "North by Northwest". Following the success of "Jewel Thief", the film was screened in many film festivals. In August 2008, the film was
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman A Trap to Catch a Cracksman "A Trap to Catch a Cracksman" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was published in July 1905 by "Pall Mall Magazine" in London. The story was also included as the seventh story in the collection "A Thief in the Night", published by Chatto & Windus in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1905. Very early morning, Bunny receives a vague and distressing telephone call from Raffles, telling Bunny that he has