In addition, Leo sets up a Palm Beach score for Frank in six weeks without consulting him. This is all that Frank will receive in cash according to Leo, who says he invested the rest of Frank's cut in shopping centers, an idea Frank had previously rejected. But when Frank returns from the job, Leo gives him less than $100,000. All goes well with Frank's " burn job" and he is expecting the agreed-upon sum of $830,000 for the unmounted stones of wholesale value $4 million.
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After being rejected at the state adoption agency, with Leo's help Frank is able to acquire a baby boy on the black market, whom he names David after his late mentor, nicknamed Okla.Īfter resisting a shakedown from a group of corrupt police detectives, and then subsequently ditching their surveillance, Frank and his crew are involved in a large-scale West Coast diamond heist organized by Leo. Frank now agrees to do just one big score for Leo, telling Barry that this will be their last job. Their meeting is monitored from a distance by police surveillance.įrank is initially reluctant, not wanting the added exposure or complications, but later that night, a conversation with Jessie changes his mind when she agrees to be part of his life, after he relates a tale of prison survival via a toughened mental attitude. He admires Frank's eye for quality stolen goods and professionalism, and wants him working directly for him, offering Frank large profits.
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Unknown to Frank, Leo has been receiving Frank's goods from Gags for some time. This leads to a meeting with Attaglia's employer Leo, a high-level fence and Chicago Outfit boss. In a confrontation at Attaglia's plating company, Frank demands his money back. Barry, Frank's friend and associate making the pick-up, discovers that a plating company executive Gags was working for, Attaglia, is responsible for Gags' murder and stealing Frank's payoff. However, before Frank can collect his share, Gags is murdered for skimming from the mob's collection money. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as fronts for his criminal enterprise, Frank sets out to fulfill the missing part of his life vision: a family with Jessie, a cashier he has begun dating.Īfter taking down a major diamond score, Frank gives the diamonds to his fence, Joe Gags.
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Warbeck was once apparently the mysterious house breaking protagonist of the Milk Tray ads whilst director Martin Campbell recently made the big budget James Bond movie (and is linked to the remake of Alfred Hitchcocks stunning film 'The Birds') two things worth pondering while you watch The Sex Thief.Frank is a jewel thief and ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. The Sex Thief rises above the typical British sexpo thanks to some pointed raunchiness, a surprisingly subversive script and a charismatic leading man. Another discovery is actress Gloria Walker aka Gloria Maley who went from being worked over by Warbeck's buzzing 'simulator' to providing blood and guts effects for the gruesome Inseminoid (1980)- a more diverse career move is hard to imagine. Viewers familiar with the latter will no doubt feel a sense of deja vu here as several characters and scenarios make premature appearances in The Sex Thief. RADA trained Michael Armstrong who acts in the film as a breast obsessed cop and wrote the film under demonic alter ego 'Edward Hyde', is most familiar to exploitation fans for the much banned Mark of the Devil as well as the autobiographical Eskimo Nell. This version entitled 'Her Family Jewels' dubiously resurfaced in the UK years later under the premise that semi-famous British thesps (Dianne Keen, Christopher Biggins) had once appeared in an X-rated movie.
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As two policemen attempt to track him down-offering plenty of raunchy commentary along the way-THE SEX THIEF delivers one funny punch line after another. He is a criminal by choice, not by necessity. This Brit Comedy stars David Warbeck as a masked thief whose dalliance with crime has more to do with fun and passion than robbery.