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Larceny is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by George Sherman starring John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, and Shelley Winters.
Larceny: Directed by George Sherman. With John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters. A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- George Sherman
- 1948-09-03
A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her inst...
- 89 min
- 14K
- Cinema4Reel
Overview. 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.
A front man (John Payne) for con artists falls for a war hero's rich widow (Joan Caulfield) likely to buy a memorial.
- Crime, Drama
- John Payne
- George Sherman
Larceny is the story of a group of con men exploiting the good intentions of a war widow for financial gain. John Payne is the smooth operator tasked with convincing his mark that he's her late husband's old war buddy, and twisting her arm into finding investments for a tribute to him.
An entertaining entanglement of lies and frames and deceptions, the film stars the always stoic John Payne as con man Rick Maxon who, along with partner Silky Randall (Dan Duryea), targets a wealthy war widow for his next fraudulent enterprise.
