There’s an episode from season 5 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called “Hitch-Hike” where one of the characters went to reform school for pick-pocketing—and I believe he pick-pockets a policeman’s ticket book during a traffic stop. > On Mar 10, 2018, at 7:07 AM, 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 http://uh.academia.edu/KarenFang >>> Professor >>> Department of English >>> University of Houston @KfangKaren >>> >>> author of _Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film_ Stanford >>> University Press, 2017 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26756 >>> >>> ---- >>> Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex >>> podcast: >>> http://www.screenlex.org >>> >> >> ---- >> To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF >> Screen-L >> in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] >> > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org