Skin Game (1971)
To market, to market, to sell your best friend, then split up the money and do it again.
ジャンル : アクション, コメディ, 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 42分
演出 : Paul Bogart
シノプシス
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
Steve Russell is a small-town cop. Bored with his bland lifestyle, Russell turns to fraud as a means of shaking things up. Before long, Russell's criminal antics have landed him behind bars, where he encounters the charismatic Phillip Morris. Smitten, Russell devotes his entire life to being with Morris regardless of the consequences.
Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
病的に潔癖症の詐欺師ロイとその相棒のフランクは、騙しのアーティストとして仕事に取り組む毎日。仕事に没頭するときロイはなぜか潔癖症を忘れ、本来の自分を取り戻し、その成果は上々だ。やがてロイとフランクは大金をせしめる大計画を始動した。カモは傲慢でウスノロな金持ち。コトをうまく運ぶにはもう一人の協力が必要だった。ひょんなことから再開したロイの娘アンジェラが二人の計画に協力することになる。しかし、運命の女神は甘くない。「完璧なシナリオ」の本領はここから加速度的に発揮されていく・・・!
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. While he's helping Brother Bud, he falls in love with Arlene (Cindy Williams), a local supermarket clerk who believes in UFOs and is deeply religious and deeply lonely. When Arlene has a vision of a coming UFO, everyone deals with it in their own way.
奴隷のスパルタカスは奴隷商人バタイアタスに買われ、剣闘士となり、剣闘士としての訓練を受けていた。ある日、ローマの偉大な将軍クラサスが訪れ、剣闘士の真剣勝負を要請した。スパルタカスを含め4人の奴隷が選ばれた。スパルタカスと黒人のドラバが戦い、スパルタカスを仕留める寸前にトラバはクラサスに向かって槍を投げつけたためその場で処刑される……。
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
高校生のフランクは尊敬する父が母と離婚すると聞き、ショックで衝動的に家を飛び出してしまう。そして、生活のため偽造小切手の詐欺を始めるようになる。最初はなかなかうまくいかなかったが、大手航空会社のパイロットに成りすますと誰もがもののみごとに騙された。これに味をしめたフランクは小切手の偽造を繰り返し巨額の資金を手に入れるのだったが…。
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
21世紀末、地球人は宇宙への進出を果たす。やがて激しい星間戦争が勃発し、地球人はドラコ星人と一進一退の攻防戦を繰り広げていた。ある日、ドラコ星人の戦闘機を深追いした地球人パイロットのダビッジは、相手を撃墜しながらも未知の惑星に不時着してしまう。その不時着した惑星の環境は想像を絶する厳しさだった。やがて彼は、同じく不時着したドラコ星人のジェリーと遭遇。敵同士として対立する2人だったが、生き延びるためには協力していくしかない。こうして力を合わせてサバイバル生活を共にするうち、2人の間には友情が芽生えていく。
はるか昔、吸血鬼族であるヴァンパイアは狼男族であるライカンを奴隷としていた。その時代には、女処刑人セリーンとうり二つの女性戦士ソーニャの姿があった。彼女はヴァンパイア一族の長老の娘だったが、ライカンのルシアンと道ならぬ恋に落ちる。
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.
Two thugs from the Perth suburb of Midland catch the last train to Fremantle. When a young woman boards the train a few stops later, they begin talking and find out not everyone on the train is not who they seem to be.
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
1936年。シカゴの下町で、詐欺師の3人組が通り掛かりの男をヒッカケて金をだまし取る。しかし彼らが手にしたその金は、いつもとは段違いの思わぬ金額だった。悪い予感は的中。その金は、ニューヨークの大物ロネガンの手下が、賭博の上がりをシカゴへ届ける為の金だったのだ。怒った組織は、仲間の一人であるルーサーを殺害する……。
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.
The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
退屈な日々を送る理髪師に転機が訪れる。彼が思いついたちょっとした恐喝は、悪夢のような日々の始まりだった。
共作で数々の名作を世に送り出したアメリカのコーエン兄弟監督・脚本によるクライムサスペンス。2001年カンヌ国際映画祭最優秀監督賞、ナショナル・ボード・オブ・レビュー最優秀主演男優賞を受賞したほか、多数の賞を獲得した。原題は『The Man Who Wasn’t There』。
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.