Search - Murph the Surf on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1974 DVD Release: 09/30/2003 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Fishing Fever Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Crime, Crime Drama

Live a Little, Steal a Lot and You Can't Steal Love were both alternate titles for the fact-based crime caper Murph the Surph. In the early 1960s, a "celebrity beach bum" named Jack Murphy--aka Murph the Surph--helped mastermind the stealing of the Star of India sapphire from the American Museum of Natural History. The film concentrates on the sociopathic pre-theft activities of Murphy (played by Don Stroud) and his partner in crime Allan Kuhn (excellently impersonated by Robert Conrad). The hollowness of Murph and Kuhn's Miami Beach lifestyle is offset with their never-ending search for "kicks"--the last of which earned them both stiff prison terms. Live a Little, Steal a Lot successfully plays its material for laughs throughout, but in the end both erstwhile criminals seem more pathetic than amusing. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Robert Conrad - Allan Kuhn
Don Stroud - Jack Murphy
Donna Mills - Ginny
Robyn Millan - Sharon
Luther Adler - Max "The Eye"