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1. THIEF 1981 CINEMATOGRAPHY MOVIE
2. THIEF 1981 CINEMATOGRAPHY PROFESSIONAL
3. THIEF 1981 CINEMATOGRAPHY SERIES

Thus a few pick-ups were needed - the last of which featured Redford’s Forrest Tucker phoning a widowed rancher he’s romancing. Though the amiable based-in-fact caper was shot largely in Ohio on 16mm, Redford’s dapper bank robber actually did most of his pillaging in Texas and its neighboring states.

THIEF 1981 CINEMATOGRAPHY MOVIE

Robert Redford’s final day on David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun - perhaps his final day as an actor on any movie set - found him in Texas. Though the stylish film has no gravitas it was easy to overlook how empty it was since it was well-acted by a fine cast, Donald Thorin’s photography passionately caught the feverish nighttime neon-lit streets of Chicago, and the throbbing electronic music provided by Tangerene Dream put the viewer in the right mood for a cool action film.In Cinematographers, Cinematography, Columns, Filmmaking, Interviewsĭavid Lowery, Joe Anderson, Robert Redford Frank reacts by going after the heavily protected Leo to get the money he was promised but shortchanged on, which turns into a violent bang-bang conclusion.Ĭaan’s not too bright thief characterization, one seeking the conventional life while living out a death wish, was brilliantly realized. It concludes with Frank realizing the evil mob kingpin never intended for him to retire.

THIEF 1981 CINEMATOGRAPHY SERIES

The big caper is a $4 million diamond heist that takes place in LA, but after the heist is smoothly executed a series of double crosses take place. Okla asks Frank to get him a pardon so he won’t die behind bars.

In an emotional scene Frank visits in prison his mentor Okla (Willie Nelson), a master thief who taught him all he knows, who is to be released in ten months but because of his heart condition the doctors tell him he won’t live that long. Leo tries to con the untrusting Frank by telling him: “Let me be your father, I’ll take care of everything.” He proves that when he provides Frank and Jessie with a baby boy obtained on the black market when the couple is turned down at the adoption agency. The deal is for Frank to make one killer score and retire. Leo’s a fence who sets up robbery sites where there’s jewels worth at least six-figures, and provides all the manpower and equipment needed for the heist. He has always been a loner, but against his better judgment makes a pact with organized crime boss Leo (Robert Prosky) on the promise he can make a big killing. When he proposes to Jessie, Frank lays his heart open to her that was both honest and corny–giving his character a twisted sentimental underpinning.įrank needs big money in order to retire in style to a decent domestic life with Jessie. Wheeler-dealer Frank has since fallen for the attractive Jessie (Tuesday Weld), a cashier in the diner he frequents, who it turns out had a problematic past that she’s running away from–her last boyfriend, now dead, was a big-time drug dealer.įrank had a damaged life as a kid being raised by the state, and as reminder that he can start over again on the right track he carries around from his prison days a postcard collage of his idealized interpretation of a normal life.

Frank wears expensive designer clothes, drives new flashy cars, flashes wads of money around, owns a used-car lot and an interest in a bar, and has recently gotten divorced over his womanizing. They steal only diamonds or cash, not touching anything else that can be traceable.

THIEF 1981 CINEMATOGRAPHY PROFESSIONAL

The thirtysomething since his release four years ago has been successful as a small-time but highly-skilled professional safecracker and jewel thief, who works with his trusted assistant Barry (Jim Belushi). “Thief” aims to make its surly but appealing ex-con Frank (James Caan) into an existential hero because he lives dangerously on the edge and has learned his no fear criminal way gives him the best chance of surviving to reach his dream of family life in suburbia.įrank served 11 years in Joliet State Penitentiary for theft and manslaughter. Real-life jewel thief John Santucci was employed as a technical adviser for the film and he also plays bad cop Urizzi (all the cops in this flick are rotten apples). It’s based on the novel The Home Invaders by Frank Hohimer. Writer-director Michael Mann’s (previously directed the television movie The Jericho Mile) feature directorial debut is a gritty modern film noir that takes place in Chicago. (director/writer: Michael Mann screenwriter: from the novel The Home Invaders by Frank Hohimer cinematographer: Donald Thorin editor: Dov Hoenig music: Tangerene Dream cast: James Caan (Frank), Tuesday Weld (Jessie), Willie Nelson (Okla), Jim Belushi (Barry), Robert Prosky (Leo), Tom Signorelli (Attaglia), Dennis Farina (Carl), Nick Nickeas (Nick), Nathaniel Davis (Grossman) Runtime: 123 MPAA Rating: R producer: Jerry Bruckheimer/Ronnie Caan United Artists 1981)