The Flim-Flam Man

The Flim-Flam Man

Infobox_Film
name = The Flim-Flam Man


caption = Movie poster
imdb_id = 0061678
amg_id = 1:17818
director = Irvin Kershner
writer = Guy Owen
William Rose
starring = George C. Scott
Sue Lyon
Michael Sarrazin
producer = Lawrence Turman
music = Jerry Goldsmith
cinematography= Charles Lang
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = 22 August 1967
runtime = 104 min.
language = English, Sioux

"The Flim-Flam Man" is a 1967 USA film starring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin and Sue Lyon, based on the novel "The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man" by Guy Owen. The film boasts a cast of well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, Harry Morgan and Albert Salmi. The movie is also noted for its jovial musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. It was shot in the Lexington, Kentucky area.

The derivation of the term "flim-flam man" () is debated, but may come from the 1930s law firm of Flam & Flam, lawyers of less-than-sterling repute in the immigrant neighborhood of 165 East 121st St. in New York City. Fact|date=August 2008

Plot summary

Scott plays Mordecai C. Jones (self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. — Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!"), a drifting con artist who makes his living playing tricks on people in the South. One of his specialties is rigged punchboards. He befriends a young man named Curley (Michael Sarrazin), an AWOL veteran on the run from the United States Army, and the two become a team to make money and keep out of reach of the law.

External links

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* [http://www.win.net/~ltreed/flimflam/ The (unofficial) Flim-Flam Man Fansite]


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