Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.
Directed by Louis Malle
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Cast
Donald Sutherland
Westlake
Jack Warden
Garvey
Sean Penn
Dillard
Wallace Shawn
Turtle
Larry Riley
Boardwalk
Trinidad Silva
Ramon
Christine Baranski
Maxine
Charlayne Woodard
Jasmine
Tasia Valenza
Maria
Irwin Corey
Lazzarelli
Edouard DeSoto
Don Fernando
Anna Maria Horsford
Slam Dunk
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Artiste
Marjorie Eaton
Mrs. O'Malley
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