The film also shares a prison setting, which became common throughout Bresson's career (Les anges du péché, A Man Escaped (1956), Pickpocket (1959), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), and L'Argent (1983).
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 crime / romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy.
School of Seven Bells — musical group named after a mythical pickpocket academy