Osamu i el seu fill es troben amb una nena al mig d'un fred glacial. Al principi, i després de ser reticent a albergar la nena, l'esposa d'Osamu acceptarà cuidar-la quan s'assabenti de les dificultats que afronta. Encara que la família és pobra i amb prou feines guanya prou diners per sobreviure a través de petits delictes, semblen viure feliços junts, fins que un accident imprevist revela secrets ocults, posant a prova els llaços que els uneixen.
Just abans de Nadal, la jove Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) és arrestada pel robatori d'una joia i és processada pel fiscal John Sargent (Fred McMurray) però el judici es posposa fins a després de Nadal. Sargent acaba sentint pena per ella i decideix emportar-se-la amb ell a casa de la seva mare. Després de passar uns dies junts, àmbits s'enamoren, però els sorgeix un nou problema, com ara resoldre l'assumpte de la justícia.
This film details the techniques used by amateur and professional shoplifters to steal over $6 billion in merchandise annually. Emphasizing how much of this stealing could be prevented ... A convicted shoplifter displays stealing methods under actual conditions and explains how employees could have prevented the thefts.
This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.
Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.
A short film that tries to deter young people from shoplifting.
Demonstration of shoplifting methods. With the Cooperation and Assistance of Berkeley, California Police Department and Berkeley Police Reserve; Addison H. Fording, Chief of Police; J.F. Hink & Son Department Store, L.W. Hink, President. Technical Assistance: Wm. P. Beall, Lieutenant; E.A. Skells, Sergeant, Berkeley Police DepartmentGeorge Jelten, Director of Visual Merchandising, J.F. Hink and Son. Director of Photography: John L. Siegle. Sound: Walter D. Porep. Narration: John E. Pedersen.
Runaway sisters Isabel and Violet drift, grift and shoplift in the hopes of skipping town. But an ironic twist of fate on the eve of their great escape sees them stranded in the marshes, where they reckon with their relationship, futures and places in the world
Anti-shoplifting film co-produced by Sid Davis and Motorola.
A young lawyer, Jane Liu, is assigned by her mentor to help Madam Wong, a 75 years old repeated shoplifter, as a pro bono defense counsel. What seems to be an easy open and shut case suddenly takes a weird turn when Jane discovers that Madam Wong's repeated petty crimes are intentional and deliberate.