The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
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Theatrical re-release poster, 1975
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| Directed by | Norman Jewison |
| Produced by | Norman Jewison |
| Written by | Alan Trustman |
| Starring |
Steve McQueen Faye Dunaway Paul Burke Jack Weston |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
| Edited by |
Hal Ashby Ralph E. Winters Byron Brandt |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.3 million |
| Box office | $14,000,000 |
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| Soundtrack album by Michel Legrand, Noel Harrison | |
| Released | 1968 (original) June 10, 2014 (expansion) |
| Recorded | 1968 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 70:39 (expansion) |
| Label |
United Artists Records (original) Quartet (expansion) |
The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. This heist film was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind". A remake was released in 1999 and a second remake is currently in the development stages.
Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can personally after secretly following the driver of the station wagon, then personally deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as to not draw undue attention to his actions.
Independent insurance investigator Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway) is contracted to investigate the heist and will receive 10% of the stolen money if she recovers it. When Thomas first comes to her attention as a possible suspect, she intuitively recognizes him as the mastermind behind the robbery.
Thomas does not need the money, and in fact masterminded the robbery as a game. Vicki makes it clear to him that she knows that he is the thief and that she intends to prove it. They start a game of cat and mouse, with the attraction between them evident. Their relationship soon evolves into an affair, complicated by Vicki's vow to find the money and help Detective Eddie Malone (Paul Burke) bring the guilty party to justice.
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