Barney Lincoln (Warren Beatty) is a cheeky young playboy with a taste for gambling who devises the ultimate scheme to cheat the casinos. After finding out that they all use the same playing card manufacturer, he breaks in and marks the kaleidoscopic pattern on printing plates for the cards. Soon the winnings mount up as he travels across Europe beating the odds. But Barney's troubles begin when he falls for the swinging fashion designer Angel (Susannah York), who discovers his deception. Her father, 'Manny' McGinnis (Clive Revill), is a Scotland Yard inspector who offers Barney a deal. He will keep quiet about the cards if Barney helps him catch international drug smuggler Harry Dominion (Eric Porter) through a high-stakes poker game...

Directed by Jack Smight, who went on to make The Illustrated Man and (oh boy) Airport 1975, Kaleidoscope is one of a number of engaging, lighthearted caper movies made in the 1960s, and you'd certainly have little trouble identifying the decade here.

Kaleidoscope has been announced for a UK DVD release on 20th April 2009 by Digital Classics at the RRP of £14.99. No extras have been listed.