The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Director: Norman Jewison
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Slick, silly romantic thriller, with Dunaway as an insurance investigator falling for McQueen, the property developer led to commit a bank robbery through boredom. Much obvious 'significance' (the pair playing chess; symbolic, see?), much glossy imagery (courtesy of Haskell Wexler) fashionably fragmented into interminable split-screen nonsense, and little of any real interest. The whole thing is as irritatingly meaningless as its Oscar-winning song, 'Windmills of My Mind'; a sad product of its times.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Norman Jewison
Producer: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto, Todd Martin, Biff McGuire full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 102 mins
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