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
To Catch a Thief (short story) To Catch a Thief (short story) "To Catch a Thief" 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 first published in "Scribner's Magazine" in May 1901. The story was also included as the fifth story in the collection "The Black Mask", published by Grant Richards in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1901. While dining at a restaurant, Raffles and Bunny discuss a recent series of unsolved robberies that have victimized London's wealthiest houses. Raffles suspects the burglar