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    Thief (film) Thief. (film) Thief is a 1981 American neo-noir [4] [5] heist action thriller film [6] directed and written by Michael Mann in his feature film debut and starring James Caan in the title role, a professional safecracker trying to escape his life of crime, and Tuesday Weld as his wife. The supporting cast includes James Belushi ...

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0083190Thief (1981) - IMDb

    Mar 27, 1981 · Thief: Directed by Michael Mann. With James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi. An ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight.

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    • Action, Crime, Drama
    • Michael Mann
    • 1981-03-27
  3. At a time when thrillers have been devalued by the routine repetition of the same dumb chases, sex scenes, and gunfights, "Thief" is completely out of the ordinary. The movie stars James Caan as a man who says he was "raised by the state" and spent eleven years in prison. As the movie opens, he's been free four years, and lives in Chicago.

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  5. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1021230-thiefThief | Rotten Tomatoes

    A highly skilled jewel thief, Frank (James Caan) longs to leave his dangerous trade and settle down with his girlfriend, Jessie (Tuesday Weld). Eager to make one last big score in order to begin ...

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    • Michael Mann
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    • James Caan
  6. In technical terms, Thief really was Mann’s feature film debut, but it was made by a man all too familiar with the skill of high-quality storytelling. A neo-noir crime thriller set in Chicago, Thief tells the story of an ex-convict Frank who has been out of jail for four years and established a reputation for being a highly professional ...

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  7. Thief. The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con safecracker planning to leave the criminal world behind after one final diamond heist—but ...

  8. Mar 21, 2014 · After years of writing for television and cutting his directorial teeth on the 1979 TV movie The Jericho Mile, Michael Mann made his feature film debut with Thief (1981), a cool, gritty crime movie starring James Caan as the head of a high-end crew of professional safecrackers. Mann builds the simple story of an independent who reluctantly ...

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