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DVD Special Features Feature-length commentary by Director, Norman Jewison Original theatrical trailer Chapter Search Soundtrack: English/German/Spanish/French/Italian Subtitles: English/Swedish/Norwegian/Dutch/French/Polish/Finnish From .co.uk ----------- Millionaire businessman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is also a high-stakes thief; his latest caper is an elaborate heist at a Boston bank. Why does he do it? For the same reason he flies gliders, bets on golf strokes and races dune buggies: he needs the thrill to feel alive. Insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) gets her own thrills by busting crooks, and she's got Crown in her cross hairs. Naturally, these two will get it on, because they have a lot in common: they're not people, they're walking clothes racks. (McQueen looks like he'd rather be in jeans than Crown's natty three-piece suits.) The Thomas Crown Affair is a catalogue of 60s conventions, from its clipped editing style to its photographic trickery (the inventive Haskell Wexler behind the camera) to its mod design. You can almost sense director Norman Jewison deciding to "tell his story visually," like those newfangled European films; this would explain the long passages of Michel Legrand's lounge jazz ladled over endless montages of the pretty Dunaway and McQueen at play. (The opening-credits song, "Windmills of Your Mind," won an O.) It's like a "What Kind of Man Reads Playboy?" ad come to life, and much more interesting as a cultural snap than a piece of storytelling. --Robert Horton P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Synopsis -------- Steve McQueen stars as a Boston tycoon who pulls off a daring bank heist just for kicks, and Faye Dunaway plays the insurance investigator who eventually falls in love with him in this Norman Jewison directed caper. Year: 1968 Director: Norman Jewison Starring: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston From the Back Cover ------------------- Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a lone wolf in chic clothing. He's a Boston tycoon who masterminds a daring bank job, even though he doesn't need the money. What he needs is the thrill of the heist, the adrenaline rush of not getting caught. Catching crooks is where insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) comes in. She always gets her man. But this time she may be too much in love to give him up. McQueen and Dunaway are lovers and adversaries in a stylish cat-and-mouse thriller written by Alan R. Trustman and directed by NOrman Jewison (In The Heat Of The Night, Moonstruck). Jewison makes exciting use of split scren images as the action leaps from the boardroom to the boudoir, the polo field to a glider cockpit. The O winning best song (1968) "The Windmills of your mind" sets the perfect tone for the swirl of romance and intrigue. See more ( javascript:void(0) )