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Podcast: Pop Culture Purgatory
Episode: Episode 342: MANBRUARY: Thief (1981)
Description: Welcome back to purgatory!!!
This month we celebrate one of the influential directors on cinema history, Michael Mann!!!
We kick off our series Manbruary with Michael Mann's first theatrical film Thief from1981, based off of the novel The Home Invaders by Frank Hohimer, the screenplay is adapted for the screen by Michael Mann and directed by Michael Mann.
The film stars James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi, Robert Prosky, Tom Signorelli, Dennis Farina, William Peterson, Nick Nickeas, W.R. Brown, Norm Tobin, John Santucci, Gavin MacFayden. Chuck Adamson, Sam Cirone, Spero...