Larceny

1948 89 min Drama, Crime

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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director George Sherman

writers Herbert H. Margolis, Lou Morheim, William Bowers

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