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E. Arthur Kean (writer)
Alan Dale Kuhn (story)
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The True Story of Two Miami Playboys Who Liked the Girls and the Good Life Enough to Turn Con Men and Pull Off the Biggest Job in History! And the Cops Knew It, But Couldn't Do a Thing About It!
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Decent AIP heist flick, well shot flimsy trash. more (2 total)

Cast

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Robert Conrad ... Allan Kuhn
Don Stroud ... Jack Murphy
Donna Mills ... Ginny Eaton
Robyn Millan ... Sharon
Luther Adler ... Max 'The Eye'
Paul Stewart ... Avery
Morgan Pauli ... Arnie
Ben Frank ... Hooper

Burt Young ... Bernasconi
Hanna Landy ... Arlene Dixon
Pepper Martin ... Terwilliger
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jess Barker
Al Bordighi
Caruth C. Byrd
Nancy Conrad
Lindsay Crosby ... Thomas
Buffy Dee
Oak R. Gentry
Harriet Haindl
Kip King
Harvey Levine
Don Matheson
Lloyd McLinn
Joseph Mell
Mimi Saffian
Mel Stevens
Herb Vigran
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Also Known As:
Live a Little, Steal a Lot (USA) (reissue title)
You Can't Steal Love (USA) (reissue title)
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101 min
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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Decent AIP heist flick, well shot flimsy trash., 7 March 2001
Author: tonypuma from Boston, Massachusetts

This film was not easy to find, and compounded with the 3 different titles it had, it basically destined itself to obscurity. "Murph The Surf" does not exactly scream, marquee mangetism. This film manages to wedge its greasy fingers into a few different pies. It bounces from true story mystique to cheap TV drama, and then tries to inject flawed interpersonal relationships into the mix. The lack of story cohesion goes a long way to confuse and disinterest the viewer.

The film is surprisingly well shot, and has a budget that's not evident in other AIP films. The production team went a long way to prove that these two playboys are brazen beyond belief. But the acting ranges between wooden and soap-opera emoting. The story makes these characters impossible to believe; nobody is bashful about the fact that they're jewel thieves, and the life they live only barely scrapes the bedrock of reality. The scene where Murph starts to have second thoughts in the museum is probably the deepest any character in the film gets. It seems fair that the idea was to show how soulless the central characters lives were, however without some subtlety it merely comes off cold. In other words, boring.

There's a pretty good boat chase in the film, and a few worthwhile scenes where your interest is almost heightened, but other than that it's unfortunate and hard to watch.

It's a disposable 70's heist movie, eclipsed by many better ones. I guess there's a reason why this stuff only remains on late-nite pay TV.

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