Check out all of the posts tagged with "con man".
The 1946 American crime film noir Nobody Lives Forever stars John Garfield as a confidence trickster who links up with crooks to cheat a beautiful widow (Geraldine Fitzgerald) out of her wealth. ‘I killed a […]
Robert Preston stars as a con man promoter named Steve Blair who wants to get rich by luring romantically inclined tourists to a Greek island paradise. But he is pursued by a gangster producer called […]
Tory (Shelley Winters): ‘Stop twisting my arm! People will think we’re married!’ Director George Sherman’s exceptionally enjoyable vintage 1948 film noir crime thriller Larceny stars John Payne as a devil-may-care confidence trickster called Rick Maxon, […]
Director Melvin Frank’s amusing 1976 Western slapstick comedy The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox stars George Segal and Goldie Hawn as gambler Charlie Malloy and saloon hostess Amanda Quaid who get mixed up with trekking […]
Roberto Rossellini’s intriguing and intelligent if rather sluggish and overlong (138 minutes) flagwaving 1959 black and white wartime picture Il Generale della Rovere has lots of interesting psychological things to say about the nature of […]
Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]
Director Basil Dearden’s painless 1968 Only When I Larf is an enjoyably tolerable Sixties British crime caper comedy with brightness, if not subtlety to commend it. It features one of Richard Attenborough’s more flamboyant performances […]