Word: conman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murray won a first prize at the 1965 student festival-and might just well be the best university movie ever made. A 14-minute comic synopsis of low-class urban life that is vaguely reminiscent of Fellini's work, Murray is the picaresque tale of a vulpine conman who rises from petty-ante rumrunner to gunsel...
KING RAT. The struggle for survival in a Japanese prison camp spells prosperity for an unscrupulous G.I. conman (George Segal) in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, brilliant drama, based on the novel by James Clavell...
KING RAT. A cunning G.I. scavenger (George Segal) exploits his fellow prisoners of war for profit in Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp. Among those caught in the conman's toils, James Fox and Tom Courtenay struggle most impressively...
...wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition; and King measures out his hoarded foodstuffs so shrewdly that the odor of two pan-fried eggs can provoke a moral crisis. Actor George Segal makes King a thoroughgoing conman-all smiles and treachery, eyes darting at every man he meets, ferreting out the Achilles' heel in order to slap a price...
...Biblical, African melodrama in which Masai tribes men appear to be following in the footsteps of the Israelites. Forced to abandon their ancestral village by the construction of a British dam that will soon inundate their homes, the Masai head for dry promised land under the leadership of a conman named Moses. Moses is Robert Mitchum, a diamond smuggler and quack doctor who peddles muscle tonic to the natives, packs precious stones in his stethoscope, and conducts his exodus with the unholier-than-thou sneer of a rascal who interprets Mosaic law as the survival of the fittest. Mitchum looks...