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Why Do Movies Call This THE BICYCLE THIEF singular?


In Stardust Memories (Woody Allen) and The Player (Robert Altman with Tim Robbins and Vincent D'Onofrio), this movie is called THE BICYCLE THIEF. They say the title about a million times. Why do these movies with these very educated filmmakers call it this and not BICYCLE THIEVES? To be honest, I prefer THE BICYCLE THIEF. The other sounds like a Marx Brothers movie. Not bad but not this.

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Just another way of saying it but the proper title translation is Bicycle Thieves, which I prefer.

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because this mistranslation is a spoiler.

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