HeyJaredThe Steal
An exploration of the perfect score, one heist movie at a time
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The Steal 025: THE CAT (1988) (opens the original)
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"In two hours, there's going to be a war down there.”When I was casting around for a film for this issue I had a quick look back through our archive, and it turns out that 1) THE STEAL is a year old today (!); and 2) in that year we’ve only covered two films from the 1980s. MALCOLM (1986), for our second ever issue, and BELLMAN & TRUE (1987) back in February.For a decade that gave the heist genre so much of its swagger, that seemed a bit stingy. On top of that, my last two issues (THE AURA and R
The Steal 024: THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (1960) (opens the original)
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“He's a nutcase you know, no getting away from it. He'll end up with a knighthood.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWmU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
The Steal 023: THE AURA (2005) (opens the original)
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“Come with me or I’ll have security rip off your balls and make you swallow them.”I often think there might be a THE STEAL alternative universe somewhere, in which an alternative Rob and Mike are busily writing a newsletter completely dedicated to con films.Con films, after all, share a lot of their core DNA with their heist cousins, which means they also share a lot of the same attractive traits. Crackling dialogue, great locations, clever twists, competence porn, a solid soundtrack… gadgets.An
The Steal 022: 11 HARROWHOUSE (1974) (opens the original)
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“People get killed stealing!”“But it would be the biggest robbery in history!”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="786" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ykpr!,w_1456,c_limi
The Steal 021: RABID DOGS (1974) (opens the original)
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“They shot him right in the head. A single shot, and his brains went everywhere. Poor Faggio was blown to pieces.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="900" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRk_!,w_1456,c_
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