Larceny

Directed by George Sherman

With John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters and Dorothy Hart

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.