The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
French theatrical release poster
FrenchLes plus belles escroqueries du monde
Directed by
Written by
Produced byPierre Roustang
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
  • Ulysse Productions
  • Primex Films
  • Lux Films
  • Vides
  • Toho
  • Caesar Films[1]
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 14 August 1964 (1964-08-14) (France)
  • 4 October 1964 (1964-10-04) (Japan)
  • 1964 (1964) (Italy)
  • 12 November 1965 (1965-11-12) (Netherlands)
Running time
111 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Netherlands
  • Japan
  • Italy[1]
Languages
  • French
  • Dutch
  • Japanese
  • Italian[1]
Box office$679,824[4]

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (French: Les plus belles escroqueries du monde) is a 1964 crime comedy anthology film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors.[1]

Cast

  • Mie Hama as a bar hostess (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
  • Ken Mitsuda as a rich client (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
  • Nicole Karen as a French tourist (segment "La rivière de diamants")
  • Jan Teulings as a 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 a swindler (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
  • Jean Seberg as Patricia (segment "Le Grand escroc")
  • Charles Denner as a con man (segment "Le Grand escroc")
  • Laszlo Szabo as a police inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")

Release

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers was released in France in August 1964, in Italy in 1964, in Japan on 4 October 1964 and in the Netherlands on 12 November 1965.[1][2][5] In the United States, the film was released on 12 September 1967 by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing.[1]

The film was unavailable for many decades, until it was restored and released on home video in France on 23 September 2016 and in the United States on 25 April 2017.[6][7]

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.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Galbraith 2008, p. 214.
  2. ^ a b "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers de Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa (1964)". UniFrance. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Le più belle truffe del mondo". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Les Plus belles escroqueries (1964)". JP Box-Office (in French).
  5. ^ "Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du Monde (Film, 1964)". MovieMeter (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Les Plus Belles escroqueries du Monde". Amazon (in French). France. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  7. ^ "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Blu-ray (Les plus belles escroqueries du monde)". Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  8. ^ "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers". Olive Films. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017.

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