This bottom of the barrel B film (pretty low even for Universal before it became a blockbuster studio) is an overly dramatic, unbelievable racket film about a shoplifting ring that blackmails librarian Mona Freeman after discovering she has a past as a shoplifter. She is trained by the glamorous head of the ring Andrea King who ends up kidnapping her and taking her to Mexico where police officer Scott Brady goes undercover in order to break the ring. It's one of the most convoluted, detail missing scripts, giving young Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson early roles but nothing really of quality. The plot and situations which follow are so outlandish that it isn't even laughable, just humourless and boring. it's the type of film that it seems like they took on unproduced scripts out of their vault, change the premise and racket, and rushed it into production. It is so bad, this wouldn't even be published as a dime-store pulp novel.
Review of I Was a Shoplifter
