Noir City: Larceny
February 11, 2023
John Payne and Dan Duryea play dandy grifters bent on bilking a wealthy war widow – and get tangled up with saucy Shelley Winters.
Individual Tickets: $15 | $10 SIFF members
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Saturday, February 11, 2023
John Payne and Dan Duryea play dandy grifters bent on bilking a wealthy war widow (Joan Caulfield) into funding a non-existent war memorial. Both these sharpies get tangled up with saucy Shelley Winters, who's more dangerous than a loaded .38! The cast has a field day firing Bowers' one-liners faster than speeding bullets. We once had to screen this riotously entertaining, little-known gem in 16mm (at Noir City 4), but we're thrilled to now show it in a glorious 35mm print courtesy of Universal Pictures. Also featuring Dorothy Hart, Dan O'Herlihy, and Percy Helton.
Photo courtesy of The Film Noir Foundation. Note courtesy of Noir City.
- Director: George Sherman
- Principal Cast: Dan Duryea, Shelly Winters, John Payne
- Country: USA
- Year: 1948
- Running Time: 89 min.
- Producer: Leonard Goldstein
- Screenplay: William Bowers, Herbert H. Margolis
- Cinematographers: Irving Glassberg
- Editors: Frank Gross
- Music: Leith Stevens
- Filmography: Citadel of Crime (1941), The Lady and the Monster (1944), Storm Over Lisbon (1944), The Comancheros (1961)
- Format: 35mm
- US Distributor: Universal Pictures