The Boy Who Stole a Million is a 1960 British comedy thriller film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Maurice Reyna and Virgílio Teixeira.
Paco finds himself on the run all through Valencia, from the most elegant quarters with their wide streets and squares in the midst of fiesta time, to the city's most squalid and dangerous slums.
[6] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A perfunctory attempt at a British Bicycle Thieves [1948], packed with clichés both in script and in Charles Crichton's direction.
The boy, the dog and the father have charm, but the story never comes alive, and the supporting roles – apart from one or two sinister Spanish bit-players – are flatly portrayed.
The fiesta scenes provide local colour, while the fight between the crooks and Paco, Miguel and Maria, which takes place on a sea wall, puts a real kick into the climax. ...