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...more than a decade, remain a successful piece of equipment for catching thieves. At Marshall Field's in Chicago a guard monitors a bank of 39 closed-circuit television screens watching for shoplifters. He is also in radio contact with guards on the floor so that a thief can be caught before slipping out of the store...
...designed for "bored" freshman who find "Harvard isn't quite what it was cracked up to be." Signs are now "a symbol of status...you ain't cool unless you've got a sign," states one freshman. Another concedes. "It is stenling, so by definition I am a thief," but another concludes that "It's the thing to do." Rudavsky notes that freshman proctors seem "unconcerned by street signs in their entry," while the Cambridge police are said to rarely fine or arrest sign thieves...
...Thiefs of Hearts, writer and director Douglas Day Stewart presents an unnerving and alluring possibility for a thriller, the simultaneous unveiling of deep secrets and the realization of fantasy. Scotty, Ray and Mickey personify Freud's conception of the mind. Scotty is the Id; one's primal nature, impulsive and sensual. Ray represents the superego, law-abiding, secure and conventional. Mickey's the ego in the middle, trying to achieve a balance between the two. "Thief of Hearts" fails to achieve a thoroughly disturbing effect because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly...
Which is disappointing, because Mickey is clearly a frustrated wife. Her husband, a self-absorbed writer, seems to know little about her or her blossoming career as an interior decorator. By contrast, Scotty knows her most personal secrets, including her political affiliation and her favorite ice cream flavor. Thief of Hearts works best when Bauer and Williams are beginning their brief romance. There's a strong sense of tension and energy as Scotty begins to create her fantasies and Mickey begins to concede. The few fantasy sequences comprise the film's most imaginative and evocative momements. Mickey, who writes...
...slapstick comedy, coming as it does in the midst of an attempt at sexual suspense, deals the death blows to an already faltering film. When all is done, the only thing that Thief of Hearts steals perfectly is two hours of your time...