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Nice guys finish last. Meet the winners.
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.Read moreLess
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.
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Steve MartinFreddy Benson
Michael CaineLawrence Jamieson
Glenne HeadlyJanet Colgate
Anton RodgersInspector Andre
Barbara HarrisFanny Eubanks
Ian McDiarmidArthur
Dana IveyMrs. Reed
Meagen FayLady from Oklahoma
Frances ConroyLady from Palm Beach
Nicole CalfanLady in Dining Car
Aïna WalleMiss Krista KnudsenExplore the crew
- Editor
- Stephen A. Rotter
- Producer
- Bernard Williams
- Director
- Frank Oz
- Editor
- William S. Scharf
- Original Music Composer
- Miles Goodman
- Director of Photography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Writer
- Dale Launer
- Writer
- Paul Henning
- Writer
- Stanley Shapiro