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The Thomas Crown Affair |
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The Thomas Crown Affair - New Transfer |
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May 17, 2005 check prices
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| | Millionaire businessman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is also a high-stakes thief; his latest caper is an elaborate heist at a Boston bank. Why does he do it? For the same reason he flies gliders, bets on golf strokes, and races dune buggies: he needs the thrill to feel alive. Insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) gets her own thrills by busting crooks, and she's got Crown in her cross hairs. Naturally, these two will get it on, because they have a lot in common: they're not people, they're walking clothes racks. (McQueen looks like he'd rather be in jeans than Crown's natty three-piece suits.) The Thomas Crown Affair is a catalog of '60s conventions, from its clipped editing style to its photographic trickery (the inventive Haskell Wexler behind the camera) to its mod design. You can almost sense director Norman Jewison deciding to "tell his story visually," like those newfangled European films; this would explain the long passages of Michel Legrand's lounge jazz ladled over endless montages of the pretty Dunaway and McQueen at play. (The opening-credits song, "Windmills of Your Mind," won an Oscar.) It's like a "What Kind of Man Reads Playboy?" ad come to life, and much more interesting as a cultural snapshot than a piece of storytelling. --Robert Horton More...
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The Steve McQueen CollectionThe Great Escape / Junior Bonner / The Magnificent Seven / The Thomas Crown Affair |
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May 17, 2005 check prices
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The Thomas Crown Affair1968 / |
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June 10, 2008 check prices
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United Artist Cinema Greats Collection, Set 2The Great Escape / Rocky / West Side Story / The Thomas Crown Affair |
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October 23, 2007 check prices
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