The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
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Directed by | Claude Chabrol Jean-Luc Godard Ugo Gregoretti Hiromichi Horikawa Roman Polanski |
Written by | Gérard Brach Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff Jean-Luc Godard Ugo Gregoretti Roman Polanski |
Produced by | Pierre Roustang |
Starring | Catherine Deneuve Charles Denner Jean Seberg Mie Hama |
Cinematography | Raoul Coutard Tonino Delli Colli Jerzy Lipman Asakazu Nakai Jean Rabier |
Edited by | Jacques Gaillard Agnès Guillemot Rita van Royen Hervé de Luze |
Music by | Serge Gainsbourg Pierre Jansen Krzysztof Komeda Michel Legrand Keitaro Miho Piero Umiliani |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
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Box office | $679,824[2] |
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (French: Les plus belles escroqueries du monde) is a 1964 film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors.[3]
Cast
- Mie Hama as Bar Hostess (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
- Ken Mitsuda as the Rich Client (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
- Nicole Karen as the French tourist (segment "La rivière de diamants")
- Jan Teulings as Dutch man (segment "La rivière de diamants")
- Gabriella Giorgelli (segment "La Feuille de Route")
- Guido Guiseppone (segment "La Feuille de Route")
- Giuseppe Mannajuolo (segment "La Feuille de Route")
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as Alain des Arcys (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
- Francis Blanche as Mr. Umlaut (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
- Catherine Deneuve as Swindler (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
- Jean Seberg as Patricia (segment "Le Grand escroc")
- Charles Denner as the Con Man (segment "Le Grand escroc")
- Laszlo Szabo as the Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Release
Les plus belles escroqueries du monde was released in France in August 1964, in Italy in 1964 and in Japan on October 4, 1964.[1] The film was released in the United States by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing.[1] It was released in the United States on September 12, 1967.[1]
The film was unavailable for many decades, until it was restored and released on home video in France on September 23, 2016[4] and in the US on April 25, 2017.[5]
Roman Polanski's segment of the film, "La rivière de diamants" ("A River of Diamonds"), has been removed, at his direct request, and that portion is thus still unavailable.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Galbraith IV 2008, p. 214.
- ^ "Les plus belles escroqueries". Jpbox-office.com.
- ^ Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 1461673747.
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(help) - ^ https://www.amazon.fr/plus-belles-escroqueries-monde/dp/B01GGNVN0U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513154649&sr=8-1&keywords=Les+plus+belles+escroqueries+du+monde
- ^ http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Worlds-Most-Beautiful-Swindlers-Blu-ray/175033/#Review
- ^ https://olivefilms.com/product/the-worlds-most-beautiful-swindlers/
External links
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers at IMDb
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers at Rotten Tomatoes
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers at AllMovie
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Blu-ray review at 10kbullets.com
- 1964 films
- French films
- Italian films
- Japanese films
- Dutch films
- Japanese crime comedy films
- French crime comedy films
- Italian crime comedy films
- Dutch crime comedy films
- French anthology films
- Italian anthology films
- Japanese anthology films
- 1960s crime comedy films
- Films directed by Roman Polanski
- Films directed by Ugo Gregoretti
- Films directed by Claude Chabrol
- Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
- Films scored by Krzysztof Komeda
- Films scored by Piero Umiliani
- Films scored by Serge Gainsbourg
- Films with screenplays by Paul Gégauff
- Films shot in Tokyo
- Films shot in Amsterdam
- Films shot in Naples
- Films shot in Paris
- Films shot in Morocco
- Japanese multilingual films
- French multilingual films
- Dutch multilingual films
- Italian multilingual films
- 1964 comedy films
- 1964 drama films
- 1960s crime drama film stubs