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The Thomas Crown Affair
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Description of this Poster The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and won Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind." A remake was released in 1999.
Millionaire businessman and sportsman Thomas Crown commits the perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank ($20,731,748 in 2021 dollars[3]), along with a fifth man who drives the getaway car with the money and throws it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men have ever met Crown in person, and they did not know each other or meet before the heist. Crown recovers the money from the trash after secretly following the driver of the fleeing car. He deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money in one go so as not to draw attention to his actions.
Vicki Anderson, an independent insurance investigator, is assigned to investigate the theft; she will receive 10% of the stolen money if she gets it back. When she discovers that Thomas is a potential suspect, she intuitively recognizes him as the mastermind of the robbery and soon after guesses that he organized the thieves so that none of the men knew him or met each other.
Thomas does not need the money, and in fact staged the robbery as a game. Vicki makes it clear to him that she knows he is the thief and intends to prove it. They begin a game of cat and mouse, the attraction between them obvious. Their relationship soon turns into an affair, complicated by Vicki's vow to find the money and help Detective Eddy Malone bring the culprit to justice.
A reward offer prompts the wife of the burglary driver, Erwin Weaver, to turn him in for $25,000 ($194,809 in 2021 [3]). Vicki discovers that he was hired by a man he has never seen, but whose voice he heard (via a microphone). She tries to put Erwin in the same room as Thomas, but there is no hint of recognition from either of them.
However, as Vicki clearly grows closer to Thomas, using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as leverage over her cash flow, he forces her to realize that she is also allowing herself to be trapped by her emotions. When she (apparently) persuades him to negotiate an ending, her point is proven when Eddy stubbornly refuses to make a deal.
Thomas organizes another robbery, exactly like the first, with different accomplices, and tells Vicki where the "drop-off" will take place, because he must be sure that she is on his side. The heist is successful, but there are gunshots and the viewer is left with the impression that people could have been killed, which raises the stakes of Vicki's decision.
Vicki and the police monitor the cemetery, where they see one of the thieves making the deposit and wait for Thomas to arrive to arrest him. However, when her Rolls-Royce arrives, she sees that Thomas has sent a messenger in her place, with a telegram asking her to bring the money and join him – or else, "you keep the car". She tears the telegram into pieces and throws the pieces to the wind, looking up at the sky with tears in her eyes. Crown flies away in a jet.
