The fact that Dan Dureya is one of the leads here announces that you are in for another squalid and dirty hoodlums' cocktail with some innocents involved being turned into helpless victims, usually dames, but here is also Shelley Winters in the beginning of her career as one of the worst collaborators involved in this mess, but she ultimately pays the full price, while fortunately Joan Caulfield gets out of it alive and clean. John Payne is rather unwilling in the racket but hangs on, until he falls in love with Joan Caulfield, which actually saves his character. It's a sordid story of crtiminality and scoundrelism and repentance and maybe atonement and nothing great in the genre, just another episode out of the dark world of deceits and lies.
Larceny
(1948)
Rotten scoundrels doing their best to botch a job by blunders
6 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers