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Con Artist (other)
A con artist is a person who performs a confidence trick. Con artist may also refer to: * ''The Con Artists'' (1976 film), an Italian crime-comedy film * '' The Con Artist'', a 2010 US romantic comedy film * ''The Con Artists'' (2014 film), a South Korean heist film See also * Confidence man (other) A confidence man is a practitioner of confidence tricks. Confidence Man may also refer to: * "Confidence Man" (''Lost''), episode of television series * ''Confidence Man'' (album), by Matt Pryor * ''The Confidence Man'' (film), 1924 silent fil ... * Con man (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Con Artist
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')". Terminology Other terms for "scam" include confidence trick, con, con game, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle, bunko, bunco, swindle, flimflam, gaffle, and bamboozle. The perpetrator is often referred to as a scammer, confidence man, con man, con artist, grifter, hustler, or swindler. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls (from the word ''gullible''). When accomplices are employ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Con Artists (1976 Film)
''Bluff - storia di truffe e di imbroglioni'' (internationally released as ''The Con Artists'', ''Bluff'', ''High Rollers'', ''The Switch'', and ''The Con Man'') is a 1976 Italian crime-comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. For his performance in this film Adriano Celentano was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actor. Plot In southern France during the Roaring Twenties, Philip Bang, a notorious master con man serving his time in prison, is relocated to a high security facility for hard labor after causing an uproar at supper. This, however, is actually part of a plan to spring him from prison, arranged with the aid of his former wife and partner, Belle Duke (proprietor of a casino yacht and herself a con woman), and his daughter, Charlotte. But on his way to a transit facility, as Bang prepares to vacate the train via a wagon restroom, he suddenly finds himself the unwilling escape aide of another con man, young Italian "Felix", who leaves Bang in the soup. Before F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Con Artist
''The Con Artist'' is a 2010 Canadian romantic crime comedy film directed by Risa Bramon Garcia and written by Michael Melski and Collin Friesen, starring Rossif Sutherland, Rebecca Romijn, Sarah Roemer, and Donald Sutherland. The film was released straight-to-DVD in the United States on June 14, 2011. Production companies are Myriad Pictures and Alcina Pictures, in association with Telefilm Canada and the Ontario Media Development Corporation. Plot When Vince is paroled after five years in prison for a heist gone wrong, his dangerous and controlling former boss, Kranski, forces him back into a life of crime. Working for Kranski as a car thief, Vince finds solace in welding sculptures out of metal and old car parts in Kranski’s chop shop. When Vince’s raw and evocative sculptures are discovered by calculating art dealer Belinda, his chance for a new life as an artist emerges. However, romantic complications arise with Belinda’s gallery assistant, Kristen. Caught between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Con Artists (2014 Film)
''The Con Artists'' () is a 2014 South Korean heist film directed by Kim Hon-sun, and starring Kim Woo-bin, Kim Yeong-cheol, Ko Chang-seok, and Lee Hyun-woo. Plot Ji-hyuk is a safe-cracker who lives the high life by stealing antiques and jewelry. He teams up with genius hacker Jong-bae, planner Goo-in and other fellow "technicians" to steal () hidden in the Incheon Customs, and they must do it within 40 minutes. Cast * Kim Woo-bin as Ji-hyuk * Kim Yeong-cheol as Boss Cho * Ko Chang-seok as Goo-in * Lee Hyun-woo as Jong-bae * Jo Yoon-hee as Eun-ha * Lim Ju-hwan as Lee Jo Hwon (Cho's right-hand man) * Jo Dal-hwan * Shin Goo as Director Oh * Kim Ji-an as Skyscraper Guard * Jung Ji-yoon as Technician assistant * Ji Seung-hyun * Heo Ji-won * Shin Seung-hwan * Choi Daniel as art gallery owner * Kim Sung-kyu as Detective team 2 member * Shin Wonho Production Filming in Gwangyang, Incheon and Seoul began in March 2014 and wrapped in August 2014. It was the first Korean produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confidence Man (other)
A confidence man is a practitioner of confidence tricks. Confidence Man may also refer to: * "Confidence Man" (''Lost''), episode of television series * ''Confidence Man'' (album), by Matt Pryor * ''The Confidence Man'' (film), 1924 silent film directed by Victor Heerman * ''The Confidence-Man'', novel by Herman Melville * Confidence Man (band), an indie pop band * "The Confidence Man", January 26, 2018 episode of ''Dirty Money'' (2018 TV series) * '' Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America'', a 2022 book by Maggie Haberman * "Confidence Man", a 1988 song by the Jeff Healey Band See also * ''The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man'', a.k.a. ''Confessions of Felix Krull ''Confessions of Felix Krull'' () is an unfinished 1954 novel by the Germany, German author Thomas Mann. Synopsis The novel is narrated by the protagonist, an impostor and adventurer named Felix Krull, the son of a ruined Rhineland winemaker. F ...'', unfinished nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
