We Thieves Are Honourable (Spanish:Los ladrones somos gente honrada) is a 1941 play by the Spanish writer Enrique Jardiel Poncela. The play is a comedy about a botched robbery at a suburban home. It has been adapted into films twice: We Thieves Are Honourable (1942) and We Thieves Are Honourable (1956). [1]
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We Thieves Are Honourable (Spanish:Los ladrones somos gente honrada is a 1942 Spanish comedy film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring Amparo Rivelles, Matilde Artero and José Jaspe. The film was based on the 1941 play of the same title by Enrique Jardiel Poncela. In 1956 the film was remade.
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