By Richard Harland Smith
Harry in Your Pocket
Brief Synopsis
Three super-pickpockets join forces.
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Bruce Geller
Director
James Coburn
Harry
Trish Van Devere
Sandy
Michael Sarrazin
Ray
Walter Pidgeon
Casey
Michael C Gwynne
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MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Crime
Release Date
1973
Production Company
United Artists Films
Distribution Company
United Artists Films
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 42m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (DeLuxe)
Synopsis
Harry is a pickpocket who works with Casey, an older criminal who mentored him. Ray and Sandy are aspiring criminals who meet when he attempts to take her watch. When they become acquainted with Harry, becomes their tutor in stealing wallets.
Director
Bruce Geller
Director
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Film Details
MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Crime
Release Date
1973
Production Company
United Artists Films
Distribution Company
United Artists Films
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 42m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (DeLuxe)
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Harry in Your Pocket
For a brief time in the early '70s, Utah's Salt Lake City seemed poised to become a viable alternative to Hollywood, as feature films such as Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and Airport 1975 (1974)--as well as the Emmy award-winning made-for-TV drama The Glass House (1972), filmed within the walls of the Utah State Prison in Bluffdale--revealed more to the 45th State than had been glimpsed in the Westerns of John Ford. Stanley Kramer premiered his 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children at Brigham Young University and the following year veteran TV writer and Mission: Impossible creator Bruce Geller chose the city as a backdrop for his feature film debut, Harry In Your Pocket (1973). Shot under the working title Harry Never Holds--reflecting the code of its pickpocket protagonist (James Coburn), whose network of accomplices (Michael Sarrazin, Walter Pidgeon, Trish Van Devere) guarantees he is never caught holding stolen goods--the United Artists release made picturesque use of such local landmarks as the Utah State Capitol Building, Pioneer Park, and the Mormon Tabernacle. Geller had his cast schooled in the art of the dip by magician and sleight-of-hand artist Tony Giorgio, whom Geller had employed as a technical advisor on Mission: Impossible and who appears in Harry In Your Pocket as a Seattle cop who intimidates Coburn's "cannon" into finding new hunting grounds; classic film fans should remember Giorgio as the brutal Bruno Tattaglia, who facilitates the murder of Corleone family enforcer Luca Brasi in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972).
By Richard Harland Smith
By Richard Harland Smith
Harry in Your Pocket
For a brief time in the early '70s, Utah's Salt Lake City seemed poised to become a viable alternative to Hollywood, as feature films such as Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and Airport 1975 (1974)--as well as the Emmy award-winning made-for-TV drama The Glass House (1972), filmed within the walls of the Utah State Prison in Bluffdale--revealed more to the 45th State than had been glimpsed in the Westerns of John Ford. Stanley Kramer premiered his 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children at Brigham Young University and the following year veteran TV writer and Mission: Impossible creator Bruce Geller chose the city as a backdrop for his feature film debut, Harry In Your Pocket (1973). Shot under the working title Harry Never Holds--reflecting the code of its pickpocket protagonist (James Coburn), whose network of accomplices (Michael Sarrazin, Walter Pidgeon, Trish Van Devere) guarantees he is never caught holding stolen goods--the United Artists release made picturesque use of such local landmarks as the Utah State Capitol Building, Pioneer Park, and the Mormon Tabernacle. Geller had his cast schooled in the art of the dip by magician and sleight-of-hand artist Tony Giorgio, whom Geller had employed as a technical advisor on Mission: Impossible and who appears in Harry In Your Pocket as a Seattle cop who intimidates Coburn's "cannon" into finding new hunting grounds; classic film fans should remember Giorgio as the brutal Bruno Tattaglia, who facilitates the murder of Corleone family enforcer Luca Brasi in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972).
By Richard Harland Smith
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Released in United States 1973
Released in United States 1973
