Film · 1950

I Was a Shoplifter

Name: I Was a Shoplifter
Director: Charles Lamont
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1950-05-13
Rating: 5.8

74 min · Directed by Charles Lamont · NR

Crime Drama Thriller

5.810
ratings

Exposing Today's Most Alarming Crime Ring!

In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.

Cast

Scott Brady

Jeff Andrews

Mona Freeman

Faye Burton

Andrea King

Ina Perdue

Tony Curtis

Pepe

Charles Drake

Herb Klaxon

Gregg Martell

The Champ

Larry Keating

Harry Dunson

Robert Gist

Barkie Neff

M

Michael Raffetto

Sheriff Bascom

Rock Hudson

Si Swanson - Store Detective

Nestor Paiva

Deputy Sheriff Gomez

Paul Fierro

Pedro - Mechanic

Bess Flowers

Glove Counter Sales Clerk

James Best

Lane Bradford

Nana Bryant

Peggie Castle

Steve Darrell

Richard Irving

Crew

Director: Charles Lamont
Producer: Leonard Goldstein
Writer: Irwin Gielgud
Editor: Otto Ludwig
Cinematography: Irving Glassberg
Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy, Bernard Herzbrun
Sound: Leslie I. Carey, Robert Pritchard
Costume: Rosemary Odell
Makeup: Bud Westmore

Details

Studios: Universal International Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Languages: English
Certification: NR
Release: May 13, 1950

Themes

film noirshoplifting

More Like This

Plunder Road

1957

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947

Sleep, My Love

1948

Time Without Pity

1957

5 Against the House

1955

The Young Savages

1961

Pushover

1954

Nightfall

1956

A Kiss Before Dying

1956

Point Blank

1967

Shadow of a Doubt

1943

Pickup on South Street

1953