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Directed by George Sherman
USA 1948
Indicator have released Larceny on Blu-ray in their Universal Noir #1 Boxset in 2022, compared HERE
John Payne (99 River Street), Joan Caulfield (The Unsuspected), Dan Duryea (Scarlet Street) and Shelley Winters (Cry of the City) play the old confidence game in the riveting crime drama Larceny. Smooth-talking grifter Rick Maxon (Payne) tries to swindle wealthy war widow Deborah (Caulfield) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Rick falls in love with Deborah he has pangs of remorse, but he must contend with his gang boss, Silky (Duryea), and the tough-as-nails moll, Tory (Winters), who is enamored with Rick but is considered Silky’s girl. Director George Sherman (The Sleeping City, Against All Flags, Big Jake) keeps the twists and turns coming in this hard-boiled film noir. Beautifully shot by Irving Glassberg (The Tarnished Angels, The Price of Fear) and co-starring Dan O’Herlihy (RoboCop) and Gene Evans (Fixed Bayonets!). *** John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow (Joan Caulfield) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss (Dan Duryea), who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets. |
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Theatrical Release: September 3rd, 1948
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Distribution | Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:29:01.335 | |
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1.37 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 31,089,714,721 bytesFeature: 28,589,776,896 bytes Video Bitrate: 38.89 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1554 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1554 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1.37 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 31,089,714,721 bytesFeature: 28,589,776,896 bytes Video Bitrate: 38.89 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller• Trailers
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Indicator have released Larceny on Blu-ray in their Universal Noir #1 Boxset in 2022, compared HERE
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On their
Blu-ray,
Kino use a DTS-HD Master /dual-mono track (16-bit) in the
original English language. It is a dialogue-heavy film without much in
the way of aggression and, like the video, is consistently exported. The
score is by Leith Stevens (The
Time Tunnel,
Hercules and the Captive Women, I
Married a Monster From Outer Space,
Great
Day in the Morning,
The
Gun Runners,
Syncopation,
World Without End, The
Night of the Grizzly,
20 Million Miles to Earth,
When Worlds Collide)
supporting the sly-crime drama adeptly. Kino offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
I really enjoyed George Sherman's
Noir Larceny. It surely must have influenced David
Mamet's
House of Games - especially the portrayal of lead character
incorporating seduction into the long confidence game. There is
deception, sexual-tension, suave John Payne, bad-girl Tory ('Torrid
Tory' in the book) played by Shelley Winters, the war-widow 'mark'
(Joan Caulfield), mastermind criminal
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