The Doctorow novel/movie was Ragtime, featuring, among others, Mary Steenburgen, Howard Rollins (?), Jr., and James Cagney. Topkapi -- Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, and the late great Melina Mercouri, I believe -- is set in what I am not sure is an actual museum in Istanbul, but I cannot bring the name to mind. Rififi is a jewelry story heist I'm almost positive. On Wed, 17 Aug 1994 12:52:20 PDT, Bernard Barryte wrote: >The first "Batman" features Jack Nicholson as the Joker perpetrating >some rather savage vandalism in a museum; the climax of the movie >after a Doctrow novel(?) occurs at the Morgan Library. If memory >serves, I think the theft in "Topkopi" is from a museum, but I >cannot now recall whether the "Raffiffi" heist is from a museum or >jewelry shop? > > >To: [log in to unmask]