Movie: A Touch of Larceny (1959)

Tagline: About Money and Women and How To Get 'Em...With a Very Special Touch!
"Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the Admiralty, finds he suddenmly needs to make some money when he falls for American Virginia Killain. When he hatches a plot to disappear in circumstances that suggest he has defected and then return to sue the papers, Virginia doesn't take much notice - at least at first. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>"