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Larceny
Film / 1948

Larceny

Directed by George Sherman
DramaCrime

★ 5.9/10Audience rating

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

The story

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

Cast

John PayneRick Mason Joan CaulfieldDeborah Owens Clark Dan DuryeaSilky Randall Shelley WintersTory Dorothy HartMadeline Richard RoberMax Dan O'HerlihyDuke Nicholas JoyWalter Vanderline Percy HeltonCharlie Jordan Walter GreazaMr. Owens Patricia AlphinWaitress Harry AntrimMr. McNulty
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Russ ConwayDetective Paul BrinegarMechanic Don WilsonMaster of Ceremonies Oliver HartwellBlack Porter (uncredited) Gene EvansHorace (uncredited)

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