DER Documentary

A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding

From the Pittsburgh Police series
by John Marshall
black and white, 8 min, 1973

Pricing information and conditions

Policemen intervene when a woman calls to complain that her boyfriend stole forty dollars. The argument soon escalates as the man refuses to admit that he took any money, and the woman, losing her temper, crashes a glass window and cuts her hand. The police try their best to diffuse the situation and eventually take the woman away from the scene.

This film is included on the Pittsburgh Police 11 Shorts DVD collection.

Other films in the series:

• After the Game
• The 4th and 5th and the Exclusionary rule
• Henry is Drunk
• The Informant
• Inside/Outside Station Nine
• Investigation of a Hit and Run w/ Legal Discussion
• Manifold Controversy
• 901/904
• Nothing Hurt but my Pride
• Three Domestics
• Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days
• Two Brothers
• Vagrant Woman
• Wrong Kid
• You Wasn't Loitering
• Youth and the Man of Property