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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929004263
Format: NTSC, Black & White
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 40984
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Edward G. Robinson once more turns his gangster image on its head in a gleeful romp based on the Broadway farce penned by Laura Perelman and S.J. Perelman. Robinson plays Pressure Maxwell, who emerges from Sing Sing planning to run a dog track with cronies Jug (Broderick Crawford) and Weepy (Edward Brophy). But the plan needs funding, so the group (assisted by Jane Wyman) opens a luggage shop as a front while attempting to tunnel into the bank next door. Now add the stores unexpected success, a gabby traveling valise salesman (Jack Carson) and the arrival of a sour con (Anthony Quinn) who wants in on the action, and the laughs are thick as thieves.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Paydirt
Larceny Inc is a witty little World war II era store of a con man (Edward G. Robinson) who plans on going straight but needs 25g's (25k in today's parlance) to buy into a dog track. When his legit attempts to raise the dough fail he falls back on Anthony Quinn's plan to hit a bank that he rejected just before leaving Sing Sing.
Unfortunately two things get in his way. He purchases a luggage store adjacent to the bank with plans to tunnel in, but his attempts to keep people out of ... Read More
Rating: - 5 star comedy, 3 star package
Edward G Robinson was a very funny comedian and at the height of his career at Warner Brothers, he made 3 farces which sent up in some way his image as a gangster. The best was the first, "A Slight Case of Murder" but "Larceny Inc" released in 1942 is not far behind.
Robinson plays an ex-con who buys a luggage shop next to a bank. Having failed to raise capital for a dog track by going in through the front door of the bank, he decides to enter into the back by drilling through into the ... Read More
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