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
Passes (valid for all Noir City screenings): $150 | $100 SIFF members
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for Noir City screenings.
Hosted by Eddie Muller (Film Noir Foundation founder, Turner Classic Movies' "Noir Alley").
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