Bosley Crowther used "The Bicycle Thief" in his 1949 review in "The New York Times", and as a result this came to be the title by which the film was known in the United States, and some people became attached to it. When the film was re-released in the late-1990s, Bob Graham, staff film critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle", was quoted as saying that he preferred the title "The Bicycle Thief", stating, "Purists have criticized the English title of the film as a poor translation of the Italian "ladri", which is plural. What blindness! "The Bicycle Thief" is one of those wonderful titles whose power does not sink in until the film is over".