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.

• DirectorLouis Malle
• Release17 February 1984
• Genre
  Action / Comedy
• Duration1h 38m
• Budget$12,000,000
• Revenue$129,268
• Rate
  

  4.5
  32 reviews
• Productions

  Universal Pictures