The Thief with Ray Milland: DVD Cover

    The Thief Director: Russell Rouse Cast: Ray Milland, Rita Gam, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson

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    • DVD Release Date: 02/19/2002
    • Original Release: 1952
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 24,000

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    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Selections
    1. Main Title; The Drop [6:33]
    2. A Film Can to Cairo [9:05]
    3. Too Close for Comfort [17:52]
    4. The Big Squeeze [10:27]
    5. Western Union [5:50]
    6. Waiting for a Signal [15:52]
    7. Three Books Tied With String [11:48]
    8. On the Brink [2:51]
    9. A Change of Heart [5:32]
    10. End Credits [:27]

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    For his directorial debut, Ray Milland went out on a creative limb, resulting in the first American film since Chaplin's City Lights without any spoken dialogue. The Thief stars Milland as Allan Fields, a nuclear physicist who has sold out to a foreign power. With only a few tinges of conscience, Fields sets about to steal vital scientific secrets and smuggle them out of the country. With the FBI on his trail, he briefly hides out in a rundown tenement house, where he inaugurates a desultory romance with a sluttish woman (Rita Gam, making her auspicious film debut). On the verge of escaping without detection, Fields is forced to commit a murder and things quickly go downhill from there. The novelty of silence (except for natural sound effects) is intriguing at first, though it wears off rather quickly; still, Ray Milland deserves at least a gold star for trying. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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