Larceny
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.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director: George Sherman, Jesse Hibbs
Actors: Dan Duryea, Joan Caulfield, John Payne
Keywords:frame up heterosexual love interest New Year's Eve pretending to be someone's friend reference to world war two