''We Thieves Are Honourable'' (Spanish:''Los ladrones somos gente honrada'') is a 1941 play by the Spanish writer

Enrique Jardiel Poncela Enrique Jardiel Poncela (15 October 1901 – 18 February 1952) was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works. In 1932-33 and 1934 he was called to Hollywood to help with the Spanish-language versions shot in parallel to ...

. 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).Goble p.830

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* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. 1941 plays Spanish plays adapted into films {{1940s-play-stub