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.
~ 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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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)? 😅
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
