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