As A kid I loved the TV movies. there seemed to be so many great ideas. Favorite was Where have all the people gone? 1974, About a familys witness to a solar flare (I think) and going back home to L.A. in search of their mom. See the man run 1971 Also with my favorite actor Angie Dickinson also with Robert Kulp. Also Haunts of the very rich, Satans Triangle, the love war, the reincarnation of peter Proud and many others.,(You may already know this) the theme to the Monday through Friday movie of the week was 'Nikkis theme' written by Angie's X husband Burt Bacharach for their daughter. Very sad story. When i hear that theme music it takes me back to me as pre-teen and a group of kids all glued to the TV. Theif is so good it feels sort of melancholy for some reason, I love talking about the great old TV movies. Thanks!
Thanks so much for uploading! I love this kind of film. A 1971 movie of the week called, "Thief" where a professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt. I love Richard Crenna, Cameron Mitchell, and Angie Dickinson. Wow! I did not see that ending coming.
No bad deed goes unpunished! That's why I've made up my mind to just stay on the straight and narrow! Yeah, life is hecka boring right now but also very peaceful! What a prophetic movie!!
Gaaaaaaad, just where does time go? Its great to see these stars of yesteryear looking so young, full of life and vibrant. And Angie .... wow, and those running shoes and blue dishwasher!!!!
Good movie. I was preoccupied in 1971 with learning to color between the lines. So I missed this film. I was age 6 ;-) I enjoyed seeing the cars, fashion, furniture of that era. Groovy! ✌
I seen the name Angie Dickenson and Richard Crenna and I had to stop and watch. Plus this is an ABC movie of the week and they have been pretty good movies that they aired. I hope this is good. :)
It’s too bad the opening theme of the “Movie of the Week was cutoff. It was composed by Burt Bacharach, Angie Dickinson’s husband at the time and the song was named after their daughter, Nikki.
How many of us take for granted the running shoe? Notice in the opening jogging scene, he is wearing a 1971 jogging outfit - complete with Addidas basketball shoes. I ran my first marathon in Converse All-Star basketball shoes in 1978. The running shoe, as far as I knew, was invented some time after that. Anyway, I never heard of a running shoe before that. I got my first pair in early 1982.
The running shoe was another product to promote tapping into insecurities about being "in shape", overweight, mortality, etc. I recall the b'ball shoes too, very comfortable.
@@johnryan3913Nonsense. Running shoes have much more padding underfoot than basketball shoes, cushioning the impact of solid ground on the runner's joints. Running regularly in basketball shoes would decimate a 25-year old man's knees and ankles by age 40 at latest.
If this theme song sounds familiar, it was used in the end credits in a 1972 TV movie called Firehouse, which starred Richard Roundtree and Vince Edwards. It was also a short lived TV series. The theme and music was written by Ron Grainer (hope I spelled that right).
It kind of sounds like the music they used in the Halloween Dream episode of Little House when Laura and Albert got captured by the Indians. I wonder if they stole those two bars of music! 😮
I guess it depends where we lived and what we were going through at the time...I was a teenager, living in New Zealand and I loved the 70's..my favourite decade.
What the hell kind of ending is that???? A run about movie with invested characters: then a random guy ends it!!!! Angie’s character just sleeps through the mess??????😊
A young Richard Crenna. Loved him as an actor. I was rather young when this aired, too, only in my single digits. But, movies as this take me back to my childhood with the 70s decor.
I believe something else was meant by "middle class." I don't believe he meant the financial level, so much as their attitude. The jeweler was refereeing to whether the thief could pull off fitting in maybe.
Yes, I enjoyed it as well, what little there was of it! I think it ended way sooner than it should have. They could have fleshed out the story more with another thirty minutes. Oh, well.@@lindabelmonte1
So he breaks into that first house without wearing gloves ...... and on leaving just walks around the corner from the rear of the house to the front without checking the owner hadn't returned! What a dimwit burglar.
The house party Richard Crenna went to was suppose to be middle class? Those were the days long ago where everyone had the chance for a real American Dream. FANCY HOUSE.
@@crime_scoper-x1466 She is breathing and a very sound sleeper .Did the shooter ,run out of the house or did he stop in the kitchen and take the money ?
That's because back then even crooks looked better than so called professionals do now! Lol. Everyone looks like a slob now! Even winos used to walk around with old tattered suits and a crumbled fedora. Casual then might mean a sport coat with patches on the elbows, and leather loafers. There was some class then. Its just grunge now!
@@gwenniegirl50 No it is NOT Banacheck . Richard Crenna did these movies on CBS in The 80's and 90's Movies like One police Plaza 1988 And Terror on track 9 in 1992 . Back when CBS ran movies of the week on Sunday and Tuesday nights !! I just had the wrong actor on the wrong show. I meant to say Janek..
SPOLER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!Movie was entertaining, BUT, I did NOT like the end!!!! To many lose ends. And was she deaf?!?! What was it supposed to mean that she didnt hear the shot? Ending was rather disappointing to me. I think they should have tied some lose ends up, and extended the movie another thirty minutes or so. The rest of the movie was pretty good, just not the end.
You are entitled to an opinion and mine is movies have sucked since the 90s when use of computer generated backgrounds and special effects was introduced. I don't care to watch video games called movies.
I'm not interested neal if you think I don't know what I'm talking about I don't have a criminal mind and I don't carry out criminal actions either and I don't need help (Charlie)
