Word: larcenist
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General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the almost unbearably moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...
...last convict ship reached New South Wales, the colony had received 83,290 prisoners. Each convict had to work out his stretch at something close to slave labor, either on a private farm or on state works. Brutality drove many to escape and outlawry, so the old petty larcenist became the new bushranger-a combination of rustler and highwayman. In the public mind, he also lost his criminal record and became one who "robbed the rich and helped the poor, and never harmed a lady...
...burning patriot by both night and avocation. Although carpentry took his work-time, his days were rounded out by tax-collecting for the colonial government. Hicks' activities with the colonial treasury were cut short when funds intended for the British governor never reached Boston, and Hicks, more patriot than larcenist, was arraigned for alleged irregularities. Records of the trial have never been found, but the story has a logical and revealing conclusion in 1775, when Hicks, along with two comrades, were slain by the advancing redcoats in the April fighting that ignited the colonies...
...regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow of death. The three strays are a tippling, has-been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper drugstore cowboy (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a lady of the evening (Rita Hayworth). In a Broadway honky-tonk they tie up with a small-time larcenist (John Qualen) about to commit suicide rather than face punishment for filching $3,000 to pamper his faithless wife. Before the evening is over they unite to win Qualen another $3,000, get themselves into some tense brushes with gamblers...
Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...