The next year she was all big hair and gum-smacking attitude as Angela De Marco, the widow in the caper comedy "Married to the Mob."

The movie, Vincent Canby wrote in The Times, is "inspired not by life but by other movies - private-eye movies, Sergio Leone westerns and caper comedies."

Only reluctantly last year, he accepted the job of directing "Sneakers," the caper comedy with an all-star cast that he also co-wrote.

"The Blue Iguana" is a mixture that embraces elements from private-eye movies, Sergio Leone westerns and caper comedies.

Bill Duke's "Rage in Harlem," adapted from a novel by Chester Himes, is a lightweight caper comedy set in 1956.

Martin Lawrence, Danny DeVito and John Leguizamo star in a caper comedy directed by Sam Weisman.

Originally known as Diamonds, it was another caper comedy, this time backed by a major studio.

In "The Ladykillers," an uneven, prankish caper comedy by Joel and Ethan Coen, he sports a resplendent Old South Vandyke, with orotund diction to match.

Even by the fanciful rules of caper comedies, "After the Sunset," directed by Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour"), is a fraudulent entertainment.

The Ocean's Trilogy is a series of three caper comedies directed by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Jerry Weintraub for Warner Bros., between 2001 and 2007.