January 27 movie: Harry in Your Pocket. More James Coburn! I had seen the end of this a few weeks ago, and then lucky me, they had it on TCM On Demand. (Georg just discovered TCM On Demand. It's the most amazing thing! It's got a couple dozen movies shown recently on TCM, and it's just like pay per view, only free. Free! Too bad they didn't have My Kingdom for a Cook for that guy doing research.)
Anyway, in Harry in Your Pocket Coburn is a master pickpocket and Walter Pidgeon is his aging partner. They take in two amateurs as apprentices, and we learn about the mechanics of team pickpocketing while the team comes together, strengthens, and eventually unravels. The relationships among the four are complicated, and make for an interesting movie. It was nice to see that Pidgeon still had it. He created dignity in his character, even when the character was an over-the-hill coke-head pickpocket.
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