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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
|name = The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
|image = Les plus belles escroqueries du monde.jpg
|caption = Theatrical poster
|director = Claude Chabrol
Jean-Luc Godard
Ugo Gregoretti
Hiromichi Horikawa
Roman Polanski
|producer = Pierre Roustang
|writer = Grard Brach
Claude Chabrol
Paul Ggauff
Jean-Luc Godard
Ugo Gregoretti
Roman Polanski
|starring = Catherine Deneuve
Charles Denner
Jean Seberg
Mie Hama
|music = Serge Gainsbourg
Pierre Jansen
Krzysztof Komeda
Michel Legrand
Keitaro Miho
Piero Umiliani
|cinematography = Raoul Coutard
Tonino Delli Colli
Jerzy Lipman
Asakazu Nakai
Jean Rabier
|editing = Jacques Gaillard
Agns Guillemot
Rita van Royen
Herv de Luze
| production_companies =
|distributor =
| released =
|runtime = 111 minutes
|country =
|language =
|budget =
|gross = $679,824
}}
'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.
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 rivire de diamants")
*Jan Teulings as Dutch man (segment "La rivire 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 4 October 1964. The film was released in the United States by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing. It was released in the United States on 12 September 1967.
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 US on 25 April 2017.
Roman Polanski's segment of the film, "La rivire de diamants" ("A River of Diamonds"), has been removed, at his direct request, and that portion is thus still unavailable.
References
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