Catalog Search Results
2) Paper moon
Series
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Ross [is] the inventor of 'The Process,' a top-secret formula which promises to make his company unimaginably rich. But when Joe meets a successful, cynical businessman he begins to suspect that his boss will never share the profits. And with that seed of doubt planted, an intricate con game soon falls into place"--Container.
6) Curly Sue
Language
English
Description
Chicago. Another town, another innocent scam for vagabond Bill Dancer and the curly-topped orphan he's cared for since infancy. This time, however, Bill hits the jackpot and his newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along the way.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[It] follows the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash. Snidely has devised the scam of the century setting off the biggest gold rush since the Klondike. Prospector Kim J. Darling is an unsuspecting oaf who joins the millionaire wannabes streaming into the town that has since been renamed Whiplash City. It's up to the usually sweet ad naive Dudley to lead the charge, defeat...
9) Houseguest
Language
English
Description
Sinbad is Kevin Franklin, a get-rich-quick con man who escapes the mob by impersonating the long-lost friend of an uptight businessman - and moving in with his family! Soon this wily con artist is struggling to find out who he's pretending to be ... a wine expert, a golfer, or even a dentist! But when the family starts to see through his act, and the mob catches on to his scam, Kevin finds his escapade as a "houseguest" suddenly much more than he...
10) The fortune
Language
English
Description
This hilarious comedy is about a pair of con artists who try to swindle Freddie out of her family fortune. Soon Freddie discovers that both mens' interest in her is more financial than romantic. The two scoundrels mount several inept attempts to murder her but ultimately discover that the real treasure is not the money but the girl.
Series
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
Language
English
Description
Mary McGarvie is a beautiful con artist who, with the help of her young daughter, fools audiences into believing she is psychic. The legendary magician Harry Houdini comes to town with a skeptic's challenge. He is going to give $10,000 to anyone who can correctly 'channel' his mother's dying words. Mary accepts the challenge. Houdini enters into a passionate affair with the charming clairvoyant even as he prepares for the most dangerous stunt of his...
Language
English
Description
Jack is a tough teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer. The conniving street kid brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and forms a unique bond with an eleven-year-old autistic girl named Glory. Kay, the child's desperate mother, also bonds with the imposter, as a surrogate daughter she can actually talk to. And the girl's cute older brother Robert falls in love. When the deception is exposed and the cops descend, loving father Mark...
Series
Language
English
Description
Contains two feature films including "Sheba, Baby," about Private Detective Sheba Shayne who tries to stop the mob from moving in on her father's loan business; and "The Monkey Hustle," about a local hustler who tries to stop a new expressway from being built in his neighborhood.
15) Monkey hustle
Series
Language
English
Description
An inner-city Chicago community comes together to save their neighborhood from the construction of an expressway that would tear up their home. They plan a huge block party to protest the action.
Language
English
Description
"Manny and Dave are two Chicago crooks skilled at rippiing off rip-off-artists who exploit the poor. They don't intend to give to the poor until a sly detective anonymously pulls a con of his own: they must donate time to the Community Center ... or do time in the federal pen"--Back container cover.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request