Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
- bet
- casino
- competition
- southern france
- wheelchair
- seduction
- con man
- swindler
- remake
- french riviera
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Steve Martin
Freddy Benson
Michael Caine
Lawrence Jamieson
Glenne Headly
Janet Colgate
Anton Rodgers
Inspector Andre
- Barbara Harris — Fanny Eubanks
- Ian McDiarmid — Arthur
- Dana Ivey — Mrs. Reed
- Meagen Fay — Lady from Oklahoma
- Frances Conroy — Lady from Palm Beach
- Nicole Calfan — Lady in Dining Car
- Aïna Walle — Miss Krista Knudsen
- Cheryl Pay — Lady with Pearls
- Nathalie Auffret — Marion
- Lolly Susi — Lady in Rolls Royce
- Rupert Holliday-Evans — English Sailor #1
- Directed
- Frank Oz
- Written
- Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 1,080 ratings
- Studio
- Orion Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
