I Was a Shoplifter

I Was a Shoplifter

27/4/1950 1h 14m 5.3/10

Overview

A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

Director

Jesse Hibbs

Top Billed Cast

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Pepe

Mona Freeman

Mona Freeman

Faye Burton

Gregg Martell

Gregg Martell

The Champ

Scott Brady

Scott Brady

Jeff Andrews

Charles Drake

Charles Drake

Herb Klaxon

Andrea King

Andrea King

Ina Perdue

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

11/26/2023

6/10

When the daughter of a judge is caught shoplifting, she has to sign a confession in order to go free. "Faye" (Mona Freeman) is not the only one in the shop who's been apprehended in this annual $100m scam - "Jeff" (Scott Brady) has also been arrested and he is determined to befriend his new rookie friend. She works in the library and receives a visitor summoning her to a bar where she meets up with the manipulative "Ina" (Andrea King) and now she finds herself involved in a blackmail plot to ensure she continues to lift goods to order for the gang. Luckily for all, "Jeff" isn't quite what he seems and what now ensues is a decently enough paced drama that illustrates just how easy it is to steal and just how lucrative a business it is for the perpetrators. There's a strangely miscast, and rather weedy, Tony Curtis aboard here as the rather un-menacing enforcer "Pepe" and at times it adopts a slightly documentary approach to the polling techniques used to ensnare these criminals, but there's enough chemistry between Brady and Freeman and King reminds me of a baddie from a Rathbone/Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" film. The ending is a bit rushed, but it's still worth a watch if you want to know how easy it is to sell-on a dodgy three-blade electric razor!

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