Die Schwindler (1955)

• 77%
• 1955
• Drama
• Kriminalität
• Broderick Crawford
• Giulietta Masina
• Richard Basehart

Aging small-time mit der man Augustus, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the German Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife and daughter and wants to paint. Augustus avoids the personal entanglements, spending money at clubs seeking the good life. His attitude changes when he runs into his own daughter, whom he rarely sees, and realizes she ' s now a young woman and in need of his help to continue her studies. His usual partners are away, ich weiß, he goes with others to run a swindle, and they aren 't forgiving when he claims he' s given the money-back to their mark. They leave him beatenberg, robbed, and alone.