For a bit of fun Boston nostalgia, go find a copy of the 1968 version of "The Thomas Crown Affair". Steve McQueen plays a bored playboy millionaire who enjoys the thrill of robbing banks; Faye Dunaway plays the sultry insurance investigator who strokes his bishop (chess reference...really). Let the sexually tense cat and mouse caper begin.While not necessarily action packed, this film does a good job of setting that old school mood. It fragments into split screens so we can follow various characters as the crime unfolds. The music is overdramatic and cheesy. Sex scenes blur into technicolor swirls. And so goes the 1960s.
More interesting, however, is Boston circa 1968. Every exterior shot looks familiar, but different -- a downtown building where it shouldn't be, strange signage over the Mass Pike tolls, ancient Boston Police cars that were actually station wagons! Spotting the little changes kept us thoroughly entertained.
This movie has inspired us to finally go visit Mount Auburn cemetery -- not for the scenery or the famous tombstones, but in the hopes that somebody might drop off $2.6 million in a trash can.
Overall, the movie is pretty good, but definitely a relic of a different time.
Final Score = B
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