The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Synopsis
Five swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam (La riviere de diamants), Naples (La feuille de route), Paris (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel) and Marrakech (Le Grand escroc).
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Directors (5)
Actors (28)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Ulysse Films, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
- Co-productions : Vides Cinematografica, Caesar Film
- Foreign production companies : Primex Italiana, Toho Company Ltd.
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Pierre Roustang
- Assistant Director : Charles Bitsch
- Dialogue Writer : Paul Gégauff
- Producer : Philippe Senne
- Screenwriters : Gérard Brach, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Paul Gégauff, Roman Polanski
- Directors of Photography : Raoul Coutard, Tonino Delli Colli, Jerzy Lipman, Asakazu Nakai, Jean Rabier
- Editors : Hervé de Luze, Jacques Gaillard, Agnès Guillemot, Rita van Royen
- Music Composers : Serge Gainsbourg, Pierre Jansen, Krzysztof Komeda, Michel Legrand, Keitaro Miho, Piero Umiliani
- Narrator : Jean-Luc Godard
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : Murder
- Production language : French, Dutch
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands)
- Production year : 1964
- French release : 14/08/1964
- Runtime : 1 h 51 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 26600
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Mono
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This anthology helmed by four talented filmmakers, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Roman Polanski, allows viewers to meet and observe four international con artists. Each story is set within a different city. "Amsterdam" follows the attempts of a seductive Dutch woman to entice an elderly man into buying her an expensive necklace in exchange for sex. He does, and she immediately runs away and uses the bauble, not realizing that it is worth a fortune, to purchase a parrot. In "Paris," a con man sells a tourist rube the Eiffel Tower. The entrepreneurial dolt ends up arrested after trying to charge an admission fee to visitors. "Naples" centers on a band of hookers who listen to their pimp and seek out old men in retirement villages. They convince the old fellows to marry them so they will not be forced to leave the city. Unfortunately for the pimp, the delighted geezers will not allow their brides to work. In the grim finale "Tokyo" a greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles. He promptly chokes to death and after he falls, she yanks out his teeth and runs them to a pawn shop. She is hoping they are platinum. They aren't and she is arrested for murder. ~
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