The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964 anthology film

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
French theatrical release poster

French	Les plus belles escroqueries du monde

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]
Distributed by	Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France (France)^[2] Paramount Films of Italy (Italy)^[3]
Release dates	14 August 1964 (1964-08-14) (France) 4 October 1964 (1964-10-04) (Japan) 1964 (1964) (Italy) 12 November 1965 (1965-11-12) (Netherlands)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	France Netherlands Japan Italy^[1]
Languages	French Dutch Japanese Italian^[1]
Box office	$679,824^[4]

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (French: Les plus belles escroqueries du monde) is a 1964 crime comedy anthology film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors.^[1]

Cast

Mie Hama as a bar hostess (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
Ken Mitsuda as a rich client (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
Nicole Karen as a French tourist (segment "La rivière de diamants")
Jan Teulings as a 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 a swindler (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
Jean Seberg as Patricia (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Charles Denner as a con man (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Laszlo Szabo as a police inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")

Release

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers was released in France in August 1964, in Italy in 1964, in Japan on 4 October 1964 and in the Netherlands on 12 November 1965.^[1]^[2]^[5] In the United States, the film was released on 12 September 1967 by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing.^[1]

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 United States on 25 April 2017.^[6]^[7]

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.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Galbraith 2008, p. 214.
^ ^a ^b "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers de Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa (1964)". UniFrance. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "Le più belle truffe del mondo". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "Les Plus belles escroqueries (1964)". JP Box-Office (in French).
^ "Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du Monde (Film, 1964)". MovieMeter (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "Les Plus Belles escroqueries du Monde". Amazon (in French). France. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Blu-ray (Les plus belles escroqueries du monde)". Blu-ray.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers". Olive Films. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017.

Bibliography

Galbraith, Stuart IV (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.

External links

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers at IMDb
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers at AllMovie
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers at Rotten Tomatoes

Jean-Luc Godard

Filmography

Feature

Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Le petit soldat (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Bande à part (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Week-end (1967)
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1968)
Joy of Learning (1969)
British Sounds (1969)
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Number Two (1975)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Passion (1982)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Hail Mary (1985)
Détective (1985)
King Lear (1987)
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993)
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1995)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Notre musique (2004)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)

Short and
segment

Operation Concrete (1955)
Une femme coquette (1955)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)
A Story of Water (1958)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
"Sloth" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
"The New World" in Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1962)
"Le Grand escroc" in Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1963)
"Montparnasse-Levallois" in Paris vu par (1964)
"Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000" in The Oldest Profession (1965)
"Caméra-oeil" in Far from Vietnam (1967)
"L'Amore" in Amore e rabbia (1969)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
How's it going
A Letter to Freddy Buache (1982)
Soft and Hard (1985)
Meetin' WA (1986)
"Armide" in Aria (1987)
"Le Dernier mot" in The French as Seen by... (1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998)
"Dans le noir du temps" in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
"Les Trois Désastres" in 3X3D (2013)
"The Bridge of Sighs" in Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux (2014)
Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (2023)

Paparazzi (1963 documentary)
Le Parti des choses (1964 documentary)
Two in the Wave (2010 documentary)
One P.M. (1972 documentary)
Redoubtable (2017 biopic)
Groupe Dziga Vertov
Bibliography

v t e Roman Polanski
Accolades Bibliography Filmography
Feature films	Knife in the Water (1962) Repulsion (1965) Cul-de-Sac (1966) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Macbeth (1971) What? (1972) Chinatown (1974) The Tenant (1976) Tess (1979) Pirates (1986) Frantic (1988) Bitter Moon (1992) Death and the Maiden (1994) The Ninth Gate (1999) The Pianist (2002) Oliver Twist (2005) The Ghost Writer (2010) Carnage (2011) Venus in Fur (2013) Based on a True Story (2017) An Officer and a Spy (2019) The Palace (2023)
Short films	A Toothy Smile (1957) Rozbijemy zabawę (1957) Morderstwo (1957) Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) Lampa (1959) When Angels Fall (1959) The Fat and the Lean (1961) Ssaki (1962) "La rivière de diamants" in The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) "Cinema Erotique" in To Each His Own Cinema (2007) A Therapy (2012)
Family	Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (first wife) Sharon Tate (second wife) Emmanuelle Seigner (third wife) Morgane Polanski (daughter)
Related	Roman Polanski sexual abuse case Mia and Roman "Roman P" Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Polanski Unauthorized Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski Tate–LaBianca murders

v t e Paul Gégauff
Films written	Les Cousins (1959) Web of Passion (1959) Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) Purple Noon (1960) Wise Guys (1961) Le Signe du Lion (1962) The Third Lover (1962) Ophélia (1963) The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) The Champagne Murders (1967) Diabolically Yours (1967) Les Biches (1968) More (1969) The Scarlet Lady (1969) This Man Must Die (1969) Les Novices (1970) Ten Days' Wonder (1971) Dr. Popaul (1972) La Vallée (1972) Pleasure Party (1975) Death Rite (1976) Ave Maria (1984) Frankenstein 90 (1984)
Related	Danièle Gégauff

Paul Gégauff

Films written