The Bicycle Thief - The End? So, when the movie was premiered on School Speech Day, November 1964 was that The End? Pretty much, the school had seen the movie prior to Speech Day, I was fortunate to receive the 1964 Parent-Teacher Association Award for my contribution towards making the film (a copy of the book Amateur Cinematography), after that the class had to knuckle down to prepare for the forthcoming CSE exams, late Spring 1965.
Mr Cole, Music Master, composer and performer of The Bicycle Thief music score, stayed on at HLS until 1965 (the year I left to search for my pot of gold) and I recently learned (unconfirmed) the local police were so impressed with the quality of the Bicycle Thief they borrowed it and showed it on their visits to local schools, presumably as part of a Keep your bike safe campaign....and, get this, they never returned the film....can that really be true?