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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]

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
Production companies	Ulysse Productions Primex Films Lux Films Vides Toho Caesar Films[1]
Release dates	August 1964 (1964-08) (France) 4 October 1964 (1964-10-04) (Japan) 1964 (1964) (Italy)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	France Netherlands Japan Italy[1]
Languages	French Dutch Japanese Italian[1]
Box office	$679,824[2]

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 4 October 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 12 September 1967.[1]

The film was unavailable for many decades, until it was restored and released on home video in France on 23 September 2016[4] and in the US on 25 April 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

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

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