Oct 3rd
The Thomas Crown Affair**
(US 1968)
A Massachusetts millionaire masterminds a daring bank robbery. A sexy insurance investigator tries to outfox him, but also falls in love.
Stylish 60s multi-image heist romance fashionable for the time. The star is, on the surface, miscast, but still has plenty of opportunity to display his familiar chutzpah, with other notable sequences including the opening robbery and a sexy chess match, that help to make it a triumph of style over slender content.
Written by: Alan R. Trustman.
Producer/Director: Norman Jewison.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Jack Weston, Paul Burke, Biff McGuire, Yaphet Kotto, Astrid Heeren.
Photography: Haskell Wexler.
Music: Michel Legrand.
Preceded by:
Haunted Spooks**
(US 1920. 23m. bw. silent. A girl marries a failed suicide in order to inherit a house that rivals try to scare them out of. Typically free-flowing and inventine Roach two-reeler; w: H.M. Walker; d: Hal Roach; s: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis.)
The Thomas Crown Affair**
(US 1968)
A Massachusetts millionaire masterminds a daring bank robbery. A sexy insurance investigator tries to outfox him, but also falls in love.
Stylish 60s multi-image heist romance fashionable for the time. The star is, on the surface, miscast, but still has plenty of opportunity to display his familiar chutzpah, with other notable sequences including the opening robbery and a sexy chess match, that help to make it a triumph of style over slender content.
Written by: Alan R. Trustman.
Producer/Director: Norman Jewison.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Jack Weston, Paul Burke, Biff McGuire, Yaphet Kotto, Astrid Heeren.
Photography: Haskell Wexler.
Music: Michel Legrand.
Preceded by:
Haunted Spooks**
(US 1920. 23m. bw. silent. A girl marries a failed suicide in order to inherit a house that rivals try to scare them out of. Typically free-flowing and inventine Roach two-reeler; w: H.M. Walker; d: Hal Roach; s: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis.)
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