Fitzwilly

In this comedy, a devoted butler, knowing that his elderly employer is in deep financial trouble, and knowing that she does not realize this, robs Gimbel’s department store on Christmas Eve to keep her financially afloat., Dick Van Dyke as a butler who organizes his fellow servants into a gang of thieves to keep their mistress (Edith Evans) out of poverty. Barbara Feldon, John McGiver, Harry Townes. Dunne: John Fiedler. Oderblatz: Norman Fell. Buckmaster: Cecil Kellaway. Grimsby: Anne Seymour. Oliver: Sam Waterston. Directed by Delbert Mann., The laughs begin as Dick Van Dyke, an eccentric philanthropist’s dutiful servant, resorts to thievery in order to keep his now-penniless employer living in style.