该片被公以为英国电影的巅峰佳作之一，在英国电影学院评出的100部最佳英国电影中名列第36片中聚集了大批当年英国影坛的红人。大盗查理(迈克尔·凯恩)刚出狱就急不及待要大乾一票，预备截劫从中国运到意大利的四百万美元黄金。查理在一名黑道头目资助下，展开了一个天衣无缝的盗金方案，出动了三架库珀豪华车,一队积架车及公车来梗塞交通。片中一幕宝马库珀豪华车(MINICooper)在好莱坞名人小道上

　　Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawtho