Mostly dreary caper movie, despite attractive leading couple

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After a rather stylized opening, "Once A Thief" settles down into a mostly dreary caper film, not helped in this case by dour black-and-white cinematography. The cast is good, though Ann-Margret is wasted in a thankless role (she gets slapped on two separate occasions). John Davis Chandler steals the film as a nasty killer who is hinted to be, as far as an MGM film of that era was allowed to hint someone to be, possibly both a pedophile and a homosexual. ** out of 4.

score 5/10

gridoon2021 12 January 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5403087/