Scott Brady & Mona Freeman in "I Was A Shoplifter" (1950) - feat. Tony Curtis & Rock Hudson
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In a large California department store, detectives spot attractive young kleptomaniac Faye Burton (Mona Freeman). Jeff Andrews (Scott Brady), another shopper, warns Faye that she is being watched, but she pretends not to understand him and continues her thefts. Shortly afterward, she is apprehended by the detectives, and Jeff is also taken into custody. Faye, a wealthy but unhappy judge's daughter, swears she will not steal again, and is released.
Later, Jeff, who is really an undercover Police detective Sergeant trying to break a shoplifting ring, meets with Sheriff E.W. Bascom (Michael Raffetto). Bascom explains that the ring uses only amateur thieves.
Subsequently, at the library where Faye works, a woman named Ina Perdue ( Andrea King) offers to return her confession if she comes to the Casa del Mar nightclub, and the conversation is overheard by another operative.
That night, after a quarrel with her Aunt Clara (Nana Bryant), Faye leaves for her meeting and encounters Jeff outside the house.
Upstairs at the club, Ina and her cohort, Barkie Neff (Robert Gist), show Faye a photostat of her confession, and ask Jeff about his connection to Faye. Jeff explains he's interested in joining Ina's operation. Ina checks Jeff's arrest record and is intrigued enough to meet him.
At the pawn shop where Ina works, Jeff learns that the "boosters" (shoplifters) are paid through the shop. After Faye completes her training, she is sent to San Diego, and is expected to steal a list of items from a specific store. When the distraught Faye tells Jeff about her assignment, he offers to steal the things for her. They meet later in San Diego. While Jeff is in a nearby cabin, Pepe (Tony Curtis, as Anthony Curtis), Ina's hired killer, attempts to rape Faye. Watched by Pepe, she runs into the ocean, intending to kill herself, but is rescued by Jeff.
The next morning, Jeff tells Faye that he is working undercover, and she agrees to complete her assignment. Meanwhile, Ina's gang is informed about Jeff's role by their department store contact. When Faye arrives at the warehouse drop-off with the stolen items, the gang takes her hostage. Outside, Jeff waits with other officers for Faye to leave before moving to arrest the gang with the stolen goods. When Jeff realizes that Faye has been kidnapped, he chases Ina's car to the border. Bascom, however, refuses to arrest the gang because he is hoping that they will lead him to their headquarters.
In Mexico, the stolen items are about to be auctioned, when Pepe spots Jeff, and a fight breaks out. Ina, Pepe and the others are arrested during a raid. Jeff and Bascom then offer them lenient sentences if they will reveal their contact, but they remain silent. Despite this, Herb Klaxon (Charles Drake), the crooked security guard, is exposed when he attempts to run away. He explains that he fell in love with Ina after he caught her shoplifting and cooperated with the gang for that reason. Now that the shoplifters are headed for prison, Jeff gives a diamond ring to Faye, with whom he has fallen in love.
A 1950 American Black & White film-noir crime film directed by Charles Lamont, produced by Leonard Goldstein, written by Irwin Gielgud, based on his own story, cinematography by Irving Glassberg, starring Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Charles Drake, Gregg Martell, Larry Keating, Robert Gist, Michael Raffetto.
Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis both have small parts in this. Tony Curtis plays a Mexican-American hood in a good-sized role, Rock Hudson a store detective in a blink-and-you'll-miss-him role. Curtis and Hudson also appear in supporting roles in "Winchester '73" (1950), starring Jimmy Stewart.
Charles Lamont (1895 - 1993) was an American filmmaker, known for directing over 200 titles and producing and writing many others. Not a great director, but a prolific one, providing rare gems. He directed nine Abbott and Costello comedies and many Ma and Pa Kettle films. He started directing comedy shorts in 1922, including for Mack Sennett and Al Christie. Some of his earliest directorial jobs were silent short-subject Juvenile Comedies, featuring child actor Malcolm "Big Boy" Sebastian, as well as some of the competing "Buster Brown" comedies for Universal Pictures. In 1932 Educational assigned Lamont to the "Baby Burlesk” a series, featuring four-year-old Shirley Temple. He along with his co-conspirators at Educational Pictures were responsible and helped set horrifying ways performers were treated in film before the invention of the Hays Code. By 1934 Lamont was Educational's top director, and he collaborated on most of Buster Keaton's 16 Educational shorts. His last film was the final Francis the Talking Mule comedy, "Francis in the Haunted House" (1956).
A relatively low-budget, excellent, but predictable, strong pace, crime B-Movie. It may not be a classic, but it's a highly entertaining, well written, well staged action, never dull in this delightfully enjoyable little movie.
Love this movie. Especially Andrea King as the beautiful villain. And Scott Brady always good as the hero. Thanks for sharing this movie here. 👍👍
Many decades ago I stole a package of balloons at the local market and was caught. The store called my mom to come and get me, and my life was changed forever. After the belt spanking, I was restricted for life. Never stole again.
New to the internet? Humor almost never works here.
~ Unlike myself, who got busted for stealing some sweets at age 5 coz my friend told me to. I took a break from shoplifting till I stole some lipstick at 14 on the way home from school. The cops took me home in a cop car and escorted me to the front door of my parent's house and much to my mum's (and my) horror went thru my bedroom. I think it was a scare tactic and it worked! I never did it again. I wasn't cut out to be a shoplifter!
When I was like 8 years old, I talked my younger brother into stealing a candy bar, he did, then I told my mom he stole a candy bar and she made him bring it back. The moral of the story is, don't do stupid shit just because someone tells you to.
@@paulelliott3456 I had my governess steal a tin of paté for me. I was a spoiled, fancy child.
Bazooka Joe was my downfall.😐
Great stuff! nice high speed chase scene, final fist fight finale and seeing future stars Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson in early roles. Anyone notice how close actor Charles Watts (police lieutenant with walkie talkie) looks in resemblance to actor Hal Smith ( “Otis” from the Andy griffin show)? 😅
Anthony Curtis or "Tony Curtis" plays Pepe -- a man who could prove fatal. Andrea King was good supporting actress who sometimes played leading roles. She started on the stage, moved into movies & TV. She was in the Robert Montgomery directed film noir, "Ride the Pink Horse." Scott Brady was a great character actor in various film genres including some great Noirs, "Port of New York" & "Undertow." His brother was Lawrence Tierney, who portrayed tough guys & mobsters. He was an alcoholic who was arrested for brawling & was stabbed in a bar fight. While filming "Reservoir Dogs," Tierney was arrested while shooting at his nephew when he was in a drunken rage. His behavior prevented many from ever hiring him again.
All in all --- not a bad little movie with Mona Freeman playing against type.
"Tony Curtis" real name was Bernie Schwartz.
@@davidmann4315 yes, I know & most film buffs who are boomers -- as I am -- know that. That's why I didn't think it necessary to tell people that. What is important is that he changed his name AND went from Anthony to Tony.
So sorry. I didn't mean to repeat something everyone knows already. My apologies. 😉
@@davidmann4315 Don't worry about it. I'm certain that there are some younger viewers who didn't know that. You did a good deed by enlightening the uninformed.
@@pearlbrandwein4731 I'm going out on a limb and of course I could be wrong, and only davidmann knows, but... I think his apology was sarcastic, that you were over the line critiquing his comment, and you should have zipped it.
"I married a shoplifter with a stolen ring" 😂 should be the title😮.
This movies story is intresting...!
😃Thank you 😄
Thanks Donald for obscure entertainment
I believe shoplifting is legal now in some states! 😂
Pretty good arial footage of pacific coast & Tiajauna, Mexico for 1950 B MOVIE.
good film
No cameras in those days, but probably more store detectives.
What are those clumps all over that wall when the two women met?
Shells.
Silly plot but fun. Ina was hot to trot.
Absolutely! I went out looking for other movies featuring Andrea King (Ina) after watching this.
back then the shoplifter would be shut down.
Now stores shut down locations for the shoplifters.
Oh good grief..... Can we stick to talking about movies here? This is a movie channel. Share your social commentary where people go to read that kind of thing.
I saw the DVD of this at Dollar Tree. I stole it. (Just kidding.)
Very funny 😂🎉
😊 Good one.
Back in the day when people got arrested for shoplifting
How horrified these actors would be to hear people now get a light sentence or no sentence at all
Over a thousand minimum..
And no one knew how brutal Mexican prisomns were and still are
No bail
No release
No food.
No clothes
No oversight
Especially for women who became permanent prostituites .
Love these old movies and find them relaxing even when they have so called chaotic subjects ,This compared to today and how strange society has become and not for the better .
It used to be a thousand shoppers and one thief, now it's the other way around.
Ok ok I confess. I stole multiple copies of penthouse magazine in 1977. I was 15 and they wouldn't sell them to me.
Add Felony kidnapping and transporting stolen goods across state lines to their charges.
These days shoplifting is sponsored by state and local governments.
HEAVY SHOPLIFTER
Today it is a sport in many demoncratic run cities. No punishment or consequence. That is why stores are finally closing up shop.
The little people are robbed of trillions 24/7/365 by the banks and the corporations.
Yes and we are paying for it!
I know I don’t nick things but since ‘store cameras’ I feel guilty.
Pretty good movie never showed in Thailand ❤❤❤
Another great flick!
Featuring Anthony 'Tony' Curtis as Pepe! And of course the protagonist gets the
almost innocent girl!
Thanks DPB!
Who could say no to a young Tony curtis?
Cute all ties with a relative when she bragged & showed off items she'd stolen for years. Her Mother had sticky fingers I recall...
When I was about 13 years old I was taken to a department store to get photographs for shoplifting in a store I never been to. School mate use my name and no one believed me that I didn’t do it. I never forgotten that
It's easy to snarkily invent fictitious sequels to this like "I Jaywalked" or "I Littered" or "I Tore the Little 'DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW' Tags Off of Mattresses". But truthfully shoplifting is a major economic problem then and now. (I'm in retail sales, so I know.) The problem is that this is a really overripe crime movie with a very silly chase climax, and one where every character except the heroine speaks like graduates from The James M Cain School of Screenwriting. The one actor who handles it well is Andrea King, who makes an incredibly sexy villainess. Yowza! This dame can pick my pockets anytime! 6/10.
No honor amongst thieves, that's for sure.
Actually this was very entertaining
Rock Hudson at 6:42 mark.
And in the room of Store Detectives at the end. Very handsome in his suit ❤
...well the only ones who weren't smoking was the pilot and the motorcycle cop!...😄
... and Mona Freeman (Faye Burton).
Scott Brady movies are always entertaining and enjoyable. The quintessential "good guy."
I've seen that club in a lot of different movies. The interior and exterior
Good movie!
Isn't that Stoney Curtis from The Flintstones
Guy warns her and she still tries to walk out?
6:11 Rock Hudson
Mais um grande filme do gênero que gosto, obrigado pela postagem do meu canal preferido, nunca me arrependo de ter me inscrito!
What a long movie but a good one! Ty😊
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What a dumb title for a movie!!
It's the truth.
LOVE SEEING ROCK HUDSON. GOOD MOVIE THANK YOU.
NOT ROCK HUDSON…DR.BRYANT LANE.
Tempted....by the mere glitter of things. Imagine that?!
Beware the "lust of the eyes".
They thought I stole a bra!
Wow! Great movie.
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There was a time when teens walked around with transitor radios glued to one ear. Stereo had not come along back then. My brother, John, had the family's radio stuck to his ear and not thinking went into a shop. A store detective hauled him back inside the store as my brother left.
Dad, on night duty, was woken and had to go get John. The thing was the battery was taped to the outer casing and the casing itself was cracked or had holes in it.
Dad was fuming. He dressed those fools down as only an ex paratrooper sergeant can. 2 days later John and I, his older brother went back to the store. I made a fuss at one end whilst John scarpered with several pounds worth of goods.
We sold them off to our mates and made a tidy profit.
We showed them.
San Diego - now, the sheriff would be helping the shoplifters.
I just figured out what killed film noir......chain smoking cigarettes! Interesting movie for the topic (stealing/thievery/robbery) and the so-called psychological motivators. Contemporary reality tells me the real motivation is a lack of education and laziness.