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.
Acting
Sean Penn's wild-eyed punk energy steals every frame.
Direction
Malle treating lowbrow material like art house poetry.
Director
Louis Malle
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