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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) and a fun-loving jazz musician (Steve McQueen) find that one indiscretion can lead to lifelong complications in Love with the Proper Stranger...
Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a Boston tycoon with a brilliant criminal mind. Uneasy lies the Crown that wears a head. To pique the Establishment that he is part of, he hires some crooks and stages a flawless $2,660,527.62 robbery that leaves the police without a clue. Enter Faye Dunaway, girl insurance investigator who has slept her way to the top of the business...
...Faye swiftly identifies McQueen as Mr. Wrong, bird-dogs him around town, and eventually gains entree to his mansion. There ensues a ludicrously erotic chess game, out of Mae West by Tom Jones, which Faye wins. After the check comes the mating, visualized in some lurid camerawork that focuses so long on the stars' lips that they come to resemble two kissing gouramis in a tank...
...robber soon fall in love; but McQueen trusts no one, and to put Faye to the test he bitterly stages another heist. She counters with an ambush that leads to a surprise ending slightly less suspenseful than the one in the Hansel and Gretel affair...
Impeded by a script that has lines like "It's my funeral; you're just along for the ride," McQueen stops acting and settles for a series of long poses. Dunaway, hired before Bonnie and Clyde was released, is used solely as a clotheshorse out for a long gambol. Giving his film a "now" look and his characters an ironic, detached air, Director Jewison obviously hoped to play his movie cool. But there are several degrees between cool and frigid: a degree of wit, a degree of plot and a degree of that old unbuyable, style. Their absence...