Harry in Your Pocket is an under-seen James Coburn starring crime drama that entertained me from the first minute to the last, I found it just randomly scrolling on amazon prime and for something I had literally no expectations of going in I’m happy to say it shocked me by being a pretty damn good movie. I realized that, although I’ve seen it plenty of times in a movie before, I’ve never watched a movie purely about pickpocketing, this one dives into the criminal art very well while also giving a very interesting relationship dynamic to go along with it. In regards to the relationship dynamic I’m not a big fan of how it starts, it’s a cliché scenario of our main character robbing someone and them becoming friends after he returns the stolen item, but after that I was thoroughly enjoying how they played with jealousy as an emotional driver for some of our main characters and I thought it was pretty well written throughout as well. Out of the cast it’s surprisingly not James Coburn who sticks out although he was also great, it’s Trish Van Devere who was my favorite here in the role of Sandy. She had great chemistry with each one of her co-stars, especially Sarrazin, and it also helps that I was just a big fan of her character and not just her, she was really good here though. Michael Sarrazin plays a role here that feels similar to what Ansel Elgort did in Baby Driver, a young and dumb criminal who doesn’t understand the gravity of what he’s doing, and even though I thought he was outshined by Van Devere and Coburn I liked him here as well. I really liked the way this was filmed too, there were a bunch of inventive shots and the coloring looked great, and when paired with Lalo Schifrin’s score (which admittedly overdoes it at points) it comes out as a pretty good piece of technical work to go along with the interesting story. It’s nothing groundbreaking by any means and I can see why and how some would find it dull but for me this is about as much as I could ask from a solid little 70’s crime drama.

Harry in Your Pocket is an under-seen James Coburn starring crime drama that entertained me from the first minute to the last, I found it just randomly scrolling on amazon prime and for something I had literally no expectations of going in I’m happy to say it shocked me by being a pretty damn good movie. I realized that, although I’ve seen it plenty of times in a movie before, I’ve never watched a movie purely about pickpocketing, this one dives into the criminal art very well while also giving a very interesting relationship dynamic to go along with it. In regards to the relationship dynamic I’m not a big fan of how it starts, it’s a cliché scenario of our main character robbing someone and them becoming friends after he returns the stolen item, but after that I was thoroughly enjoying how they played with jealousy as an emotional driver for some of our main characters and I thought it was pretty well written throughout as well. Out of the cast it’s surprisingly not James Coburn who sticks out although he was also great, it’s Trish Van Devere who was my favorite here in the role of Sandy. She had great chemistry with each one of her co-stars, especially Sarrazin, and it also helps that I was just a big fan of her character and not just her, she was really good here though. Michael Sarrazin plays a role here that feels similar to what Ansel Elgort did in Baby Driver, a young and dumb criminal who doesn’t understand the gravity of what he’s doing, and even though I thought he was outshined by Van Devere and Coburn I liked him here as well. I really liked the way this was filmed too, there were a bunch of inventive shots and the coloring looked great, and when paired with Lalo Schifrin’s score (which admittedly overdoes it at points) it comes out as a pretty good piece of technical work to go along with the interesting story. It’s nothing groundbreaking by any means and I can see why and how some would find it dull but for me this is about as much as I could ask from a solid little 70’s crime drama.