The Thomas Crown Affair

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Plot: 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...( read more  ) 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

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  MCT:

  July 1, 2008

  A jaded playboy businessman (Steve McQueen) expands into masterminding heists for kicks, and bumps into a sexy tough-cookie insurance adjuster (Faye Dunaway) who's investigating his latest crime. Are they falling in love, or just playing cat and mouse? Cool performances from sexy leads, a masterful seduction over a chessboard, and hip "mod" direction from Norman Jewison (featuring gratuitous split screens and a sweet martini-jazz soundtrack) make this a fun time capsule.

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  June 23, 2008

  The (original) Thomas Crown Affair is more of a time capsule than an actual movie. It stammers around with a dull story, gimmicky split screen shots (which really annoyed the hell out of me after a while) and Faye Dunaway's wardrobe. This one had a lot of potential (that the 1999 remake ultimately tapped into) but the lack of chemistry between Steve McQueen and Dunaway kind of foreshadows the abysmal ending. And that "sexy chess game" sequence was pretty damn ridiculous. And normally a young Faye Dunaway really does it for me but not even she could truly save this one.

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  May 19, 2008

  Was an okay movie, but I definitely prefer the newer Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo...

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  April 28, 2008

  Faye Dunaway is so cool. That's all that really matters. Oh, and the remake looks like it would suck majorly.

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  April 8, 2008

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• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Norman Jewison
• Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Classics
• Released: June 19, 1968
• DVD Released: August 15, 2001

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