The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston
Synopsis:
An insurance agent tries to trap a bank robber, who is actually a city gent in it for the kicks.
Review:
The epitome of sixties chic (split-screen, out of focus intros, behind furniture shots, designer clothes, lush score) and either sublimely stylish or vacuous according to taste as a result. It traded on McQueen's by now iconic status and the success of The Cincinnati Kid with the same team, but amuses more than it beguiles. Standout sequences are the chess game (all looks and innuendo), and the climax, when genuine emotion appears to break at last, too late. It was remade in the nineties with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, to comparable effect.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston
Synopsis:
An insurance agent tries to trap a bank robber, who is actually a city gent in it for the kicks.
Review:
The epitome of sixties chic (split-screen, out of focus intros, behind furniture shots, designer clothes, lush score) and either sublimely stylish or vacuous according to taste as a result. It traded on McQueen's by now iconic status and the success of The Cincinnati Kid with the same team, but amuses more than it beguiles. Standout sequences are the chess game (all looks and innuendo), and the climax, when genuine emotion appears to break at last, too late. It was remade in the nineties with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, to comparable effect.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston
Synopsis:
An insurance agent tries to trap a bank robber, who is actually a city gent in it for the kicks.
Review:
The epitome of sixties chic (split-screen, out of focus intros, behind furniture shots, designer clothes, lush score) and either sublimely stylish or vacuous according to taste as a result. It traded on McQueen's by now iconic status and the success of The Cincinnati Kid with the same team, but amuses more than it beguiles. Standout sequences are the chess game (all looks and innuendo), and the climax, when genuine emotion appears to break at last, too late. It was remade in the nineties with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, to comparable effect.