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The Carleton family will do anything for money, except work. They meet a lonely old woman who decides to take them into her home. George-Anne Carleton, the savvy and cynical baby of the family, hatches the perfect plan: pretend to be decent hardworking people in the hopes that the old woman rewrites her will in their favor! How long can you play a role before you actually become it?
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"The classic comedy caper is about two cunning conmen on the French Riviera. The caddish Freddy Benson enjoys setting up elaborate ruses to seduce women. The suave Lawrence Jameson likes to pose as a prince to swindle the wealthy. When the two men meet, each perceives the other as an interloper and a threat. Upon the arrival of vacationing soap heiress Janet Walker, the two sweet -talking scoundrels compete to trick her out of both her clothes and...
4) Topaze
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After years of dedicated service, Professor Topaze is summarily fired for flunking his worst student, who happens to be the son of the powerful Baron, a wealthy businessman who stands to make a fortune by peddling a worthless health tonic. All the Baron needs is one man with lots of academic credentials and few scruples to endorse his sparkling water.
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"Having failed to establish himself as a painter in Paris, Paul Sloane decides to return home to his wealthy girlfriend, Laurie Gibson. His roommate, Casey Barnett, argues that Paul should fake his own suicide, which will make his paintings much more popular. With Paul presumably dead, demand for his work soars. When Casey grows wealthy selling it off and begins courting Laurie, an angry Paul frames his deceitful friend for his murder"--Container....
7) Sam Whiskey
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Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?
10) Elmer Gantry
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One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
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