Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Directed by

Lloyd Bacon

Genre

comedy film, heist film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop next to a bank so they can dig a tunnel and rob the vault. But when the shop becomes a legitimate success, the heist plans get complicated.

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What happens

Larceny, Inc. is a 1942 American crime comedy film. Originally released on May 2, 1942, by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is a cross between comedy and gangster genres. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, the film stars Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, and Jack Carson, and features Anthony Quinn, and Edward Brophy. This was the third and final collaboration between Bacon and Robinson, having previously made the crime comedies A Slight Case of Murder (1938) and Brother Orchid (1940). The film is based on the play The Night Before Christmas by Laura Perelman and S.J. Perelman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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