In 1968, with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway making psychedelic love, this was the movie of its day: Dunaway had wowed audiences the previous year in Bonnie and Clyde and inspired a whole new fashion look. And look is everything in this highly glossy, thinly plotted film. While Dunaway and McQueen aren't really given the chance to expand their roles enough for us to identify fully with them, director Norman Jewison goes to town with cinematic techniques - from the multiple split screen at the start as smooth bank robber McQueen masterminds the heist, to lots of A Man and a Woman-style swirling cameras and reflections through windows. As a result, the film now looks dated, but the bank raid scenes are tautly effective, there's a nice chess/seduction scene reminiscent of the eating orgy in Tom Jones and the Oscar-winning theme song Windmills of Your Mind remains as haunting as ever.

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