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- What happened to Frank? Siegel's piece reports a debate: the director's pessimistic answer is nowhere, while the star believed someone with Frank's determination would get everything back; the ambiguous ending is part of the appeal.
- Thief as the first Heat: per the Siegel piece, the star told Pacino "that was my movie"; it's all one movie for Mann, though Thief is about a man alone and Heat is a showdown.
- For a $5.5 million downtown LA bank job, Neil McCauley over the combustible Frank, going through Voight's character.
- It would have been great if Frank became the Voight-style fixer years later.
- Caan never appeared in another Mann movie; in the Criterion disc interview he calls Mann an 18-hour-a-day workaholic, and two notoriously difficult people made one movie and were done.