London-based gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his right-hand man, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), an animal lover with a bad stutter, plan a jewel heist. They bring in two Americans to help: an alluring con artist, Wanda Gershwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis), and “weapons man” Otto West (Kevin Kline), an Anglophobe who fancies himself an intellectual. […]