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Leah Aldridge <[log in to unmask]>
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FOCUS (Requa/Ficarra, 2015), which is vaguely reminiscent of Harry in Your
Pocket.

On Mar 10, 2018 4:05 PM, "Craig Martin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I'm sure you already have Bruce Geller's 1973 film *Harry in Your Pocket*.
There's also Curt Bois' character who pickpockets unsuspecting targets in
Michael Curtiz' *Casablanca,* the pickpockets in Jack Conway's *The Unholy
Three *remake and the self-confessed kleptomaniac with a veritable library
of stolen wallets in Steven Spielberg's animated film *The Adventures of
Tintin *(2011).

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:06 AM, Linda Robinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Probably nothing like what you're looking for, but there's always the
> musical Oliver! (1986).
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Fang, Karen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >
> > I'm looking for movies about pickpockets (similar to Samuel Fuller's
> > PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, Robert Bresson's LE PICKPOCKET, and Jia
Zhangke's
> > XIAO WU).
> >
> >
> > I'll be considering these films in conjunction with a thread of Hong
Kong
> > movies on the same topic, as well as COLD EYES (a Korean remake of a
Hong
> > Kong movie that quotes Fuller), but would be grateful for titles and
> > suggestions to other movies about pickpockets within world film.
> >
> >
> > Feel free to reply off off-list.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any leads!
> >
> > Karen Fang
> >
> >
> > Karen Fang https://urldefense.proofpoint.
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> > Professor
> > Department of English
> > University of Houston @KfangKaren
> >
> > author of _Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film_ Stanford
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