Thief is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Michael Mann and based on the 1975 novel The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by "Frank Hohimer" (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). The film stars James Caan as the titular thief.
Frank (James Caan) is an expert jewel thief and hard-boiled ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as f...
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Thief is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Michael Mann and based on the 1975 novel The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by "Frank Hohimer" (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). The film stars James Caan as the titular thief.
Frank (James Caan) is an expert jewel thief and hard-boiled ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as fronts for his lucrative criminal enterprise, Frank sets out to fulfill the missing part of his life's montage: a family beginning with Jessie (Tuesday Weld), a pretty cashier he has begun dating.
After taking down a major diamond score, Frank's fence, Joe Gags (Hal Frank), is murdered for being on the take - pushed out of a 12th story window. Barry (James Belushi), Frank's friend and associate making the pick-up, discovers that a shady plating company executive Gags was working for is responsible, a Mr. Attaglia (Tom Signorelli). $185,000 of...
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