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!
@@bomtown Remember a movie called, The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster? Not 100% sure it was a made for TV flick, but it was that type of film & was on TV a lot.
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!!!!
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.
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! ✌
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 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. :)
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
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.
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.
@@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)
That was a great little movie and Richard Crenna was good to watch in every way. I also love Angie Dickinson who is still going strong at 92!
Anything with Richard Crenna has to be good.😊
I have not watched this movie , since 1971 .I think back to it every now and then ,ABC had some great movies of the week .
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!
@@bomtown Remember a movie called, The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster? Not 100% sure it was a made for TV flick, but it was that type of film & was on TV a lot.
Love Richard Crenna.
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!!
your a gutless pissant
Good for you. Wholesome is the way to go.
I missed this back in 1971, glad I got to watch it even if it 52 years to see it.
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!!!!
I will give this a watch tonight. I love Crenna and Dickinson, thanks for posting. :)
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.
Same here !😔
Good movie never the less !
I did in 1971 , when I was a kid on The ABC Movie of The Week .
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! ✌
🩷70s
I was 7 and in first or second grade depending what part of the year it was. Learning to read Dick and Jane!
Angie Dickinson! Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤
LUV blue washer and dryer
With the matching DW! 😂
Needed more Angie.
Awww Angie! So beautiful and what a figure!
It held me to the end, great movie!!!
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.
Love that song!
No kidding! Theme music MADE these shows back then.
Was that the same song that played on Gilligan’s teeth when he picked up a radio station in his fillings? 😂
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.
Who cares
Must've been difficult to run in basketball shoes 😅😅
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.
@@d.a.w.975 hey 1971 was a very long time ago but arent they still expensive for the average person in 2023 to buy? Lol! Hugs!
@@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.
I really enjoyed this movie. Thank you!!
Wish my tablet worked so I could watch this on there the good Ole days polyester suits God I miss these days ...❤ I was three when this came out
Excellent. They don't make them like that anymore . Typical seventies.
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).
Cool! Ron Grainer also wrote the theme to The Omega Man w/Charlton Heston. Also Dr. Who (i think.)
@@Mister_Listener Yeh i recognised Omega Man during this film.
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! 😮
That yellow and green combo of the 70's.oooof. Can't believe I actually liked it then.
Amazing what a pair of shades can do sometimes.
The 70s was a very strange period of time - for me the 80s were the best times
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.
Ten years before Michael Mann's Thief.
This was totally great, thanks!
Best movie i ever seen,Lord bless the abandoned,abused, and the suffering.
@davevolskysbackdoor5673I think they’re trolling because they can’t be serious.
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??????😊
I thought it was odd, in 1971.
No one ever gets away with a crime.
I thought maybe she had been shot and was dead, but then her subconscious was telling her it was the television.
Great movie it is. And the score (if it may be called so) is also great.
Excellent cast..one of the good made for tv movies.
Robert Weber the guy he owes money too excellent tv actor he always a shady character.
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.
Actually, a young Richard Crenna was when he was doing the 1950s sitcom, "Our Miss Brooks". He's very grown up here.
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. :)
Wow. I didn't see that coming. Goood movie.
Days of the old running suits.
This video adds a touch of luxury to our life.
My God the body on her. She was not only gorgeous but also a very fine actress.
True
She has that famous quote “I dress for women & undress for men”
She slept through a gunshot. Incredible.
or he shot her too and she was dead .. we might never know
Brit chap here..this kept me guessing til the end! Not bad, bit more Angie would have been nice!
If the people who threw the big party are middle class, then I want to be middle class.
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.
@@Dion-rz3fz I think you're right. Anyway I enjoyed watching the movie.
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
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt. - from IMDB
Watching & subscribed. 💛
Ok that was a surprise ending. Out of the blue.
loved it - well done
And I also love Angie Dekenson❤
I saw this when it originally aired
Great to see Hurd Hatfield, of The Picture of Dorian Grey (1945,) and forty years later Murder She Wrote, with his original co-star Angela Lansbury 😊
The 70s living in New York City, Brooklyn Queens that depicts the 70s Gritt dirty. Time Square 42nd street.
14 years old. CooL
Super film, super actors, thank you ......
Fitting ending I'd say,!
Richard Crenna and Angie Dickenson also starred in the remake of the epic movie entitled Sabrina, with Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford (1995).
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.
I didn’t see this movie-I was three yrs old at the time.
Karma Always Wins.
Angie, nothing but the best! Always dress to kill!!
I think that first outfit is Pucci
@@samanthab1923 I’m not sure the designer of her dress, but what I meant was the movie she was in 1980 called dressed to kill.
@@yessy2646 Oh! Sorry, puns are lost on me 😆 I always remember her putting on her gloves in that movie.
@@samanthab1923 hahahaha! Yes she drops the 🧤 @ the museum! Where she gets picked up! Hahaha
Definitely a smoke show
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.
He used the newspaper and a tissue .
So at the end, did she know this was going to happen - she was so calm. Or just she fell asleep and didn't know a thing.
You would think the shot would wake her up.
Shut up and stop spoiling for those who haven't watched it yet,,,how dumb can you be??
@@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 ?
Maybe she dozed off thinking the Western movie was still playing?
The mouse ate the cat!!
His hair stylist asleep on the job.
It was kinda terrible. I loved it.
Nice Adam's apple.
Richard Crenna created Tarter Sauce.
He doesn't look like a thief.
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!
Hurd Hatfield! Dorian Gray 👻
Nice
A lot of the music is quite similar to Omegaman
Mangie Prickleson ...... phworrrrr ...Space Food Stix
dommage que le SON soit si BAS😂🎉❤
Haha! Great movie!
The sound is not good
Good luck moving hot brooches! So 70s 😂 😆
Never trust Dick Crenna.
Wasn't Richard also in Banacheck in the 90's on CBS ?? Thanks for the upload !!
@MrCraigblaze are you perhaps thinking of Banacek an NBC show that ran from 1972-1974? George Pepperdine played the title character.
George Peppard
@@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..
So how come he didn’t use gloves when opening the gate?
@@cheriamour2429Loved him in Banachek
Angie D. Yum.
How small is that shower
Soap on a roap 😅
What the heck 😳
Cooy
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.
Same old story world over.
1/2 hour n, I m out!
Worst script ever.
Why is every 1970s movie starring Richard Crenna so awful? Folks -- they really, truly made them this awful back then. Brrrrr....
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)
Great pic Philip Shaefer ,thanks for "Theif" what else ya got?😊📽️🇨🇦🪶