The Beautiful Swindlers
Cast & Crew
Nicole Karen
Jan Teulings
Arnold Gelderman
Gabriella Giorgelli
Beppe Mannaiuolo
Guido Giuseppone
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
AMSTERDAM : A young Parisian woman in Amsterdam cons a middle-aged Dutchman into buying her a diamond necklace, presumably with the promise that she will in return give him certain "favors." She flees from his house with the expensive jewelry, however, before fulfilling her end of the bargain. But her motives are entirely unmercenary: she trades her acquisition for a parrot being sold by a waterfront bum who is unaware of the necklace's value. NAPLES: To avoid being evicted from the city as an undesirable citizen, a prostitute marries a man from an old people's home. Her pimp decides to repeat the process with all the streetwalkers, thus making him the richest procurer in the city. The newly married old men are devoted to their young wives, however, and will no longer permit them to work at night. PARIS: An ingenious swindler sells the Eiffel Tower to a gullible German, who is taken into custody by the welfare authorities when he shows his "title deed." TOKYO: A barmaid becomes the mistress of a wealthy man, then watches happily as he chokes to death eating noodles. She attempts to pawn his false teeth, believing them to be made of platinum, but learns that they are worthless. Foiled by his "false" teeth and equally false bank notes, she is, nonetheless, arrested for his murder.
Cast
Nicole Karen
Jan Teulings
Arnold Gelderman
Gabriella Giorgelli
Beppe Mannaiuolo
Guido Giuseppone
Jean-pierre Cassel
Catherine Deneuve
Francis Blanche
Sacha Briquet
Jean-louis Maury
Mie Hama
Ken Mitsuda
Crew
Gérard Brach
Claude Chabrol
Tonino Delli Colli
Jacques Gaillard
Ugo Gregoretti
Hiromichi Horikawa
Pierre Jansen
Krzysztof Komeda
Jerzy Lipman
Keitaro Miho
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
Jean Rabier
Pierre Roustang
Rita Von Royen
Piero Umiliani
Herman G. Weinberg
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Opened in Paris in August 1964 as Les plus belles escroqueries du monde; released in Italy in 1964 as Le truffe più belle del mondo. Originally produced as a 5-part anthology in color. One of the segments (directed by Jean-Luc Godard and featuring Jean Seberg, Charles Denner, and Laszlo Szabo) was deleted before its Paris premiere and later released in France as a short entitled Le grand escroc. Scheduled for U. S. distribution by Continental Distributing, Inc. as World's Greatest Swindles.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall September 12, 1967
Released in United States November 1967
Godard's episode shot January 1963.
Franscope
Released in United States Fall September 12, 1967
Released in United States November 1967 (Godard's episode was cut from the film when it premiered in Paris. His sketch was shown at the London Film Festival November 24. 1967, and later released in France as a short. The film was originally produced in color.)
