Time for a new blogathon! I am inviting you to write about thievery in films.
The caper, the heist, kidnappings, great escapes, con artists, high-class jewel thieves, art forgers, hungry peasants stealing bread, in any genre–all will be accepted!
You many write about films from any era from any area of the world.
You may also write about television shows, either those featuring a thief as a main character (for instance, Remington Steele or White Collar) or individual episodes featuring thievery (the “Dead Freight” episode of Breaking Bad or “The Train Job” episode of Firefly).
This is a very expansive topic, so my only rule is no duplicates, unless it’s two versions of the same story (i.e. the two versions of The Lavender Hill Mob).
The blogathon will run Friday, November 17 – Sunday, November 19. You may post any day (or earlier, if you wish).
To claim your topic, please request your choice in the comments section below, or contact me on Twitter (@DebbieVee). Include the name and URL of your blog. Then grab one of the banners below, display it on your blog and link it back to this post.
Thanks for joining in!
THE ROSTER SO FAR:
Moon in Gemini: Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
MovieMovieBlogBlog: Take the Money and Run (1969)
Cinematic Scribblings: Le Départ (1967)
lifesdailylessonsblog: How to Steal a Million (1966)
Liz Durano: The Usual Suspects (1995)
Realweegiemidget Reviews: The Angels’ Share (2012)
Movies Silently: Alias Jimmy Valentine (1929)
The Stop Button: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
B Noir Detour: Comparison of The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Rififi (1955)
Once Upon a Screen: The Killing (1956)
Silver Screenings: To Catch a Thief (1955)
Outspoken and Freckled: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Caftan Woman: You and Me (1938)
A Shroud of Thoughts: The Saint (1962 – 1969)
Destroy All Fanboys!: Topkapi (1964)
Cinematic Catharsis: White Heat (1949)
Pure Entertainment Preservation Society: Remember the Night (1940)
Critica Retro: Jewel Robbery (1932)
Peyton’s Classics: The Devil’s Brother (1933)
CineMaven’s Essays From the Couch: Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
The Midnite Drive-In: The Maltese Falcon (1931) and Satan Met a Lady (1936); the three actors who played Mr. Freeze in the classic Batman TV series (1966 – 1968)
Wide Screen World: Road to Perdition (2o02)
Love Letters to Old Hollywood: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Dreaming in the Balcony: Arsène Lupin (1932)
Thoughts All Sorts: Man on a Ledge (2012)
Film Noir Archive: Thief (1981)
Top 10 Film Lists: Criss Cross (1949)
The Story Enthusiast: Trouble in Paradise (1932)
It Came From the Man Cave!: JCVD (2008)
Sat In Your Lap: Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
Random Pictures: Payback (1999)
Sometimes They Go to Eleven: The Split (1968)
In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood: Grand Hotel (1932)
LA Explorer: Charade (1963)
Silver Screen Classics: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Totally Filmi: Sapthamashree Thaskaraha “Seven Good Thieves” (2014)
4 Star Films: The Big Steal (1949)
MOON IN GEMINI 
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Check out this new Blogathon hosted by Debbie of Moon in Gemini. Hope u all plan to partake just like me
Okay, I’m game! May I do Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run”?
You got it! Thanks for joining!
Sounds like fun! Could I write about Le Départ (or The Departure) from 1967? Thank you!
Sounds perfect! Thanks for participating!
Hi Debbie🌻😊
This sounds like fun.
Can I Post on How To Steal a Million?
Of course! Thanks for joining!
Great! Thanks so much for posting😊
Oooh! I’m in! Hope The Usual Suspects hasn’t been taken yet!
It’s all yours! Thanks for joining!
Thanks!
Forgot to add my URL: https://lizdurano.com/blog/
Hi Debbie, would I be able to do Catch Me If you Can (2002) with Leonardo DiCaprio? Not sure if this counts.
It totally counts! Thanks for participating!
Great to hear so quickly – Thanks for having me!
Love you to join me and Thoughts All Sorts, https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/blogathon-2017/
I need a little time to think of a topic. Will get back to you soon.
Will be lovely to have you, thanks Debbie
Hi there, I’d like to cover THE THIEVING HAND (1908) if I can. Thanks!
Absolutely! Thanks for joining!
Ooh! I love The Thieving Hand. This is going to be good.
Sorry to change my selection but would it be okay if I covered the 1929 Alias Jimmy Valentine instead? This film is often listed as lost but a collector has generously granted me permission to review it and its safe-cracking plot would fit perfectly into your event!
Yes, absolutely! Kristina just made the change in the sign-up form. 🙂
Whoops! I forgot to post my link (it’s been up for a bit):
https://fanboydestroy.com/2017/11/06/random-film-of-the-week-topkapi/
Great! Look forward to reading it. You’ll be in tomorrow’s recap.
How about… FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE for The Stop Button?!?!
Thanks!
How about…YES! Thanks for participating!
Great idea for a Blogathon!
I think I’ll compare aspects of Asphalt Jungle and Rififi, if that’s ok with you.
Sounds fantastic! Thanks for participating!
Hi Debbie –
For now put me down for Kubrick’s THE KILLING (1956), but I may well choose a second one. 🙂
Aurora
Once Upon a Screen
@CitizenScreen
Great choice! Thanks for joining in!
I’m in! I’d look to offer up something on Fritz Lang’s 1938 feature You and Me.
http://www.caftanwoman.com/
Terrific! Thanks for joining!
How about The Saint (the classic TV show with Sir Roger Moore, not the horrible movie released a few years back)?
Loved that show when I was a kid!. Thanks for joining in!
Topkapi for me, please!
It’s yours! Thanks for participating!
Hi there! I would like to review White Heat (1949), if it hasn’t already been spoken for.
Blog name: Cinematic Catharsis (Cinematic is.blogspot.com)
Thanks!
– Barry P.
You got it! Thanks for participating!
I would like to write about “Remember the Night” from 1940. Barbara Stanwyck’s character is a jewel thief, so I think this will qualify. This is an excellent topic for a blogathon!
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan
Great! Thanks for joining!
Dear Debbie,
I may have asked you this before, but I can’t remember. I apologize if I am being redundant, but I would like to invite you to join my blogathon, “The Great Breening Blogathon:” https://pureentertainmentpreservationsociety.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/extra-the-great-breening-blogathon/. It is celebrating the life and work of Joseph Breen, the enforcer of the Motion Picture Production Code between 1934 and 1954. As we honor his birthday, which is on October 14, we will be discussing and analyzing the Code era, breening films from other eras, and writing about our own ideas for classic movies. One doesn’t have to agree with the Code and Mr. Breen to enjoy that! I hope you will do me the honor of joining. We could really use your talent!
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan
I’m already booked for two other blogathons that week. Sorry! Hopefully next time.
I understand. Good luck in the other blogathons! I, like the silly girl that I am, am probably participating in the same blogathons. We can read each other’s articles!
Yours Hopefully,
Tiffany Brannan
I thought a lot about that, and decided to write about Jewel Robbery, from 1932.
I can’t wait!
Kisses!
Le
Fantastic! Thanks for joining!
I’d like to join up! I pick The Devil’s Brother (Fra Diavolo) starring Laurel and Hardy.
My blog is Peyton’s Classics.
peytonsclassics.wordpress.com
That’s great! Thanks for joining in!
Hi there Debbie ~ I’ll probably reach out to you on Twitter as well. But I’d like to throw my beret in the ring for the 1954 French heist film: “TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI.” It stars JEAN GABIN. It’s a heist film…that’s really about friendship. Put me down for that one.
Merci!!
CineMaven
CineMaven’s Essays From The Couch
https://cinemavensessaysfromthecouch.wordpress.com
Sounds great! Thanks for joining!
I did the Bogart version of “The Maltese Falcon” last year for the Bogart blogathon. In it I mentioned the two previous versions of the story “the Maltese Falcon” from 1931 and “Satan Met A Lady” from 1936. At the time I didn’t have access to either one. Now I do.
Sounds great! Glad to have you with us!
Okay, I’m in. I’ll take ROAD TO PERDITION.
http://widescreenworld.blogspot.com
Great! Thanks for joining in!
I’d love to write about one of my favorite comedies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988). This promises to be a lot of fun!
LoveLettersToOldHollywood.blogspot.com
One of my all-time favorites! Thanks for participating!
I’m surprised no one has yet taken “The Sting”… I already covered it once, so I’m not ready to re-hash it yet. I’m just commenting.
I think I would like to take a second entry however. Three different actors took on the role of Mr. Freeze in the classic “Batman” TV series (George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach) As expansive as it sounds (and it probably will be), I’d like to take on a review of the three (six episodes).
Hopefully, someone will still grab The Sting as a topic!
Thanks so much for doing a second entry. Sounds great! I will update the roster soon.
Hi and nice to meet you. Many thanks to Cinemaven/Theresa Brown for informing me of this blogathon. I would like to contribute an essay on Arsene Lupin with the Bros Barrymore. Hoping it is not too late. Such a great theme for a blogathon.
Still plenty of time! Great to have you with us!
Great one! Can I do Man on a Ledge please?
It’s yours! Thanks for joining!
So many good choices here but I’d already previously published The Town and The Sting…both two awesome thievery movies.
Debbie
I would like to write about The Asphalt Jungle please! Top10filmlists.com
Thanks
Kevin
Hi Kevin! I’m sorry, but someone has already claimed that film. If there is another one you’d like to write about for the blogathon, please let me know.
How about Criss Cross (1949)? Would love to write about that
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One of my favorites! You got it!
Thanks! Looking forward to the Blogathon! Great topic
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Hello Debbie,
I’d love to get in on the heist action with Michael Mann’s 1981 classic Thief. My blog is at http://www.filmnoirarchive.com.
Thanks,
Danilo
Fantastic! Welcome aboard!
I would love to write about Trouble in Paradise from 1932, please.
http://www.storyenthusiast.com
Sounds great! Thanks for joining!
Okay, mine’s up…early.
https://wp.me/p8cFHd-xx
I would love to cover JCVD from 2008 staring Jean-Claude Van Damme
Bob From
It Came From The Man Cave!
http://www.mda4life.blogspot.com
Terrific! Thanks for joining in!
Can I have Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) please?
Very interesting choice. I love it! Thanks for participating!
Hello! Great topic for a blogathon. 🙂
I’d like to do “Payback” (1999). Thanks!
You got it! Glad to have you aboard!
Hi Debbie, a lot of these entries look great. Especially looking forward to Jewel Robbery.
Can you put me down for 1968’s The Split
thanks
Giles
http://www.sometimeseleven.com
It’s yours! Thanks for joining in!
Hi Debbie, can I change my post to review Burn After Reading (2008) – trying to stop reviewing the same people (and failing miserably this week!)
No problem–love that movie!
Thanks Debbie, one of mine too. Such a great topic and so many choices… yet keep drifting towards Leo! So thanks for letting me do this!
I never did get the chance to complete my post for your last blogathon. Life has been hectic. I would love to be part of this blogathon though. I’ll start on my post early to ensure I have it in on time. Could I write about “Grand Hotel” ( 1932 ) please?
Sure! Glad you can join us!
Thanks. Looking forward to writing about “Grand Hotel”. I’ve been wanting to write about it for ages.
I’d like to write about Charade for LA Explorer (http://la-explorer.com/). Thanks!
Great! Thanks for joining in!
Hi there, things been a bit hectic here, can I change my post to reviewing the movie, The Angels Share? (its an old post but not been used for a blogathon) Gill from Realweegiemidget Reviews
Hi! Left things closer to the date but I have my film – ‘The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3’ (1974). Hope that’s ok! Best regards, Paul.
Great choice, I remember my dad taking me to see it when it first came out! Can’t wait to read your post.
Many thanks Debbie! Looking forward to finishing it!
Is it too late to request The Great Train Robbery? (The 1979 version)
Not at all! Thanks for joining!
Hi, Debbie,
I’d like to participate in this blogathon, with the film Sapthamashree Thaskaraha (“Seven Good Thieves), a Malayalam language heist film from 2014, if that’s okay.
That sounds fantastic! Thanks for participating!
Hello, if it is not take I would love to do a post on The Big Steal (1949). Let me know. Thank you!
It’s yours! Thanks for joining!
Hi my post is up now. Thank you! https://fourstarfilmfan.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/the-big-steal-1949/
My blogathon post is now live at: https://moviemovieblogblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/take-the-money-and-run-1969-woody-allen-steals-the-show/
Here’s mine! Thanks so much for this opportunity!
The INCspotlight: The Great Train Robbery (1979)
http://channelawesome.com/forums/xfa-blog-entry/the-incspotlight-the-great-train-robbery-1979-it-takes-a-thief-blogathon-special.14334/
The first entry is now up (on Batman’s Mr. Freeze)
http://midnitedrive-in.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-iceman-cometh.html
A 1930s Fritz Lang film: http://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/11/it-takes-thief-blogathon-you-and-me-1938.html
Mine is up, too: http://www.totallyfilmi.com/2017/11/sapthamashree-thaskaraha-dir-anil-radhakrishnan-menon-2014.html
My review for Thief is up and ready at http://www.filmnoirarchive.com/2017/11/17/it-takes-a-thief-blogathon-thief-1981/
Thanks!
Didn’t get you into today’s recap, but don’t worry, your post will be included in tomorrow’s.