Word: conman
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...faithful as a slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate...
Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a conman of religion is in many ways better on the screen than it was as a book. Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy are surrounded by the rich, authentic flavor of tent-show evangelism...
...Famed conman and gambler, shot in 1898 in a Skagway brawl. * Correct "Labor omnia vincit...