I Was a Shoplifter
"Exposing Today's Most Alarming Crime Ring!"
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
Top Cast
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Scott Brady
Jeff Andrews
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Mona Freeman
Faye Burton
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Andrea King
Ina Perdue
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Tony Curtis
Pepe
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Charles Drake
Herb Klaxon
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Gregg Martell
The Champ
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Larry Keating
Harry Dunson
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Robert Gist
Barkie Neff
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Michael Raffetto
Sheriff Bascom
Overview
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
Rating
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CinemaSerf6 Nov 26, 2023When 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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