Larceny (1948)

Review: Larceny (1948)

Director: George Sherman

Cast: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters, Dorothy Hart,

John Payne
John Payne
Joan Caulfield
Joan Caulfield
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters
Dorothy Hart
Dorothy Hart

Plot: 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.

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