The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) on Netflix
PG19681h 42mCrimeDramaRomanceThriller
Thomas Crown, a wealthy Boston businessman, masterminds the theft of $2.66 million from a bank. Investigator Vicki Anderson is hired by the bank's insurer to find the culprits.
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Plot summary
Five men rob a Boston bank of $2.66 million. The planner, Thomas Crown, never meets them, and they never meet one another; the getaway driver drops the cash in a cemetery trash can, and Crown collects it and moves it into a numbered account in Geneva. Vicki Anderson, an independent investigator, is engaged by the bank's insurance company and stands to gain ten percent of the money if it is recovered. She reasons that the man behind the robbery knew the bank's habits through holding an account there, and that the cash went to Switzerland. A list of customers who had recently traveled to Geneva brings Crown to her attention. She lets him know she is sure he is the thief and means to prove it, and their contest turns into an affair.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
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- Sean Connery was the original choice for the title role of Thomas Crown but turned it down, a decision he later regretted; Johnny Carson also turned the role down.
- Michel Legrand had to write an original song to replace "Strawberry Fields Forever", the temporary track used for the glider scene; on Quincy Jones' advice he composed "The Windmills of Your Mind" with the Bergmans, and Noel Harrison recorded it after Norman Jewison failed to get Andy Williams.
- The film's split-screen shots, showing simultaneous action, were inspired by the Expo 67 films In the Labyrinth and A Place to Stand. Steve McQueen saw an advance screening of A Place to Stand and told Christopher Chapman he was impressed, and Norman Jewison then inserted split-screen scenes into the already finished film.
- The car Vicki Anderson drives, called "one of those red Italian things" in the film, is the first of only ten Ferrari 275 GTB/4S NART Spiders built. Steve McQueen liked it so much that he acquired one for himself.
- Michel Legrand scored his first major American film after Norman Jewison hoped to hire Henry Mancini, who was unavailable and recommended him; Legrand wrote long pieces rather than to scene timings and the film was later edited to his music by Jewison and editor Hal Ashby.
- The chess game Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway play in the film while silently flirting is based on a real game played in Vienna in 1898 between Gustav Zeissl and Walter von Walthoffen.
