The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film) The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind". A remake was released in 1999, and a second remake is currently in the development stages. Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) accomplishes a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway car with the money and dumps it
Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon seldom achieved in the cinema." They judge that Shirakawa gives the film, "a wide-eyed innocence that is both fresh and convincing." The success of "Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon" inspired 20 direct sequels—four in 1972—and numerous unofficial sequels and series. Shōgorō Nishimura became a regular Nikkatsu director, helming seven of the "Apartment Wife" sequels. Kazuko Shirakawa became Nikkatsu's first Roman Porno queen. Though she appeared in only the first "Apartment Wife" sequel, titles to unrelated films in which she starred, such as "Afternoon Affair: Rear Window" and "Affair At Twilight" (both 1972), capitalized on the success of her first