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.
Key credits listed on this page include Louis Malle, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Riley, and Trinidad Silva.