A rookie pickpocket (Michael Sarrazin) tries to dip a girl (Trish Van Devere) at a train station, but fails. She feels sorry for him, but when the pair join forces with a pair of older professional and experienced pickpockets (James Coburn and Walter Pidgeon) who show them how to work as a team and work the streets of Seattle and Salt Lake City.
An interesting film that makes excellent use of fresh locations of Seattle and Salt Lake City rather than more obvious cities, going into great detail on the art and presenting the viewer with a whole glossary of terminology on how to work a crowd as pickpockets. Coburn is good, but Pidgeon is outstanding in one of his later roles in which he is understated in his performance as an ageing dipper with a cocaine habit.
An interesting film that makes excellent use of fresh locations of Seattle and Salt Lake City rather than more obvious cities, going into great detail on the art and presenting the viewer with a whole glossary of terminology on how to work a crowd as pickpockets. Coburn is good, but Pidgeon is outstanding in one of his later roles in which he is understated in his performance as an ageing dipper with a cocaine habit.