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*** [[spoiler: KansasCityShuffle: While Freddy and Lawrence are trying to con Janet, she plays along, taking them ''both'' for suckers at the climax.]]
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*** [[spoiler: KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler:KansasCityShuffle: While Freddy and Lawrence are trying to con Janet, she plays along, taking them ''both'' for suckers at the climax.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: A brief mention is made on the train radio of a skilled young con-artist called "The Jackel". Lawrence initially suspects Freddy is the guy, but he isn't. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Janet is The Jackel, and out-smarts both men while getting away scot-free.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ostensibly, at least. Lawrence Jamieson claims to only target wealthy and corrupt women, and we never ''see'' him make his words hollow.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ostensibly, at least. Lawrence Jamieson claims to only target wealthy and corrupt women, and we never ''see'' him make do anything to the contrary.
* EvilerThanThou: Both Lawrence and Freddy think the other is inept as a con-man and attempt to prove they're the better hustler. Once Janet arrives on the scene, [[spoiler:she proceeds to show them both how it's done]].
* EvilVsEvil: A smaller-scale example than most. It starts as a turf-war of sorts between Lawrence and Freddy when Freddy starts plying hiswords hollow.
* EvilVsEviltrade on Lawrence's traditional stomping grounds, then escalates into a full-blown contest of skill where they both try to see who can con $10,000 out of a wealthy young girl, Janet Colgate, when she shows up. [[spoiler:She then turns it into a full-blown melee-à-trois by misdirecting both of them and getting away with the same sum of money they were trying to con her out of.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Both Lawrence and Freddy think the other is inept as a con-man and attempt to prove they're the better hustler. Once Janet arrives on the scene, [[spoiler:she proceeds to show them both how it's done]].
* EvilVsEvil: A smaller-scale example than most. It starts as a turf-war of sorts between Lawrence and Freddy when Freddy starts plying his
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* KarmaHoudini: Neither Lawrence nor Freddy face punishment for their con-tricks. [[spoiler:Nor, it turns out, does Janet.]]
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* VillainousFriendship: Lawrence and Freddy alternate between having this and being bitter rivals. [[spoiler:When Janet comes back at the end of the film, complete with a bunch of new rich morons for the three of them to con together, they wind up having a three-way form of this.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Janet Colgate, in case you didn't guess it, has a humdinger of a secret under wraps, which is the cause of all these spoiler marks. [[spoiler:Namely, she is the mystery con-artist known as "The Jackel", and was only playing along with the schemes both Freddy and Lawrence were pulling on her, and walks away with thousands of dollars of their money while sacrificing none of hers.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Janet Colgate, in case you didn't guess it, has a humdinger of a secret under wraps, which is the cause of all these spoiler marks. [[spoiler:Namely, she is the mystery con-artist known as "The Jackel", and was only playing along with the schemes both Freddy and Lawrence were pulling on her, and walks away with thousands of dollars of their money while sacrificing none of hers.]]
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* WhamLine: "Goodbye boys. I'll miss you. Love, Janet, [[spoiler:the Jackel]]."
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* AdaptationExpansion: TheMusical is extremely faithful to the movie, and one of the only changes that it makes are to give Andre and Mrs. Reed more character development.
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* TheBarnum: Lawrence is this, or at least thinks he is. His introductory song in TheMusical is titled "Givin' Em What They Want."
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Janet Colgate, full stop]].
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* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Lawrence]] intends to be this when it looks like [[spoiler: Freddy]] has won their wager. He later is this when it turns out that [[spoiler: Janet]] has played them both. [[spoiler: Freddy]], not so much.
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* WorthyOpponent: At the end, Lawrence acknowledges [[spoiler:Janet]] as this.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At one point this was conceived as a vehicle for [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger]] and DavidBowie.
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A 1988 FrankOz film about con artists. A remake of an earlier movie, ''Bedtime Story'', with a different ending.
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A 1988 FrankOz Creator/FrankOz film about con artists. A remake of an earlier movie, ''Bedtime Story'', with a different ending.
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* DoubleMeaning: When Janet gives the briefcase of money back to Lawrence, she tells him "I can't take this. It doesn't belong to me. And I'll always have something from you that means much more." [[spoiler:Little does he know that she's speaking the literal truth: the briefcase actually contains Freddie's clothes (which don't belong to her), and she has his money.]]
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* GentlemanThief: Lawrence may rob these rich woman blind, but he spends it on rare art, ancient wine, and French legacy gardens.
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A 1988 FrankOz film about con artists. Taken almost word-for-word from an earlier movie, ''Bedtime Story''.
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A 1988 FrankOz film about con artists. Taken almost word-for-word from A remake of an earlier movie, ''Bedtime Story''.
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** OutGambitted: [[spoiler: both Lawrence ''and'' Freddy]].
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** OutGambitted: [[spoiler: both Both Lawrence ''and'' Freddy]].
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* BetweenMyLegs: When Janet is talking to Freddy out of his "suicide attempt" as he's crawling on the beach.
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* BetweenMyLegs: When Janet is talking to Freddy out of his "suicide attempt" as he's crawling on the beach.
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* [[ConMan Con Men]] (Lawrence Jamieson, Freddy Benson[[spoiler:, and "Janet Colgate" herself!]])
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* [[ConMan Con Men]] (Lawrence Jamieson, Freddy Benson[[spoiler:, Benson [[spoiler:, and "Janet Colgate" herself!]])
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* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. After demonstrating the skills that Lawrence taught him in the TrainingMontage, Freddy never uses them again. Justified in that after that point, they are in competition with each other over who's technique works better.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. After demonstrating the skills that Lawrence taught him in the TrainingMontage, Freddy never uses them again. Justified in that after that point, they are in competition with each other over who's whose technique works better.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. After demonstrating the skills that Lawrence taught him in the TrainingMontage, Freddy never uses them again.
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* RoyallyScrewedUp: When some heiresses get too close to Lawrence's princely con, he gets Freddie to play a mentally disturbed brother, Ruprecht, to scare them off.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] is the butler!
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Lawrence Jamieson (Creator/MichaelCaine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who plays on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious con artist, Freddy Benson (Creator/SteveMartin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may affect his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of 'The Jackal,' and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate. Complications and [[HilarityEnsues hilarities ensue]].
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Lawrence Jamieson (Creator/MichaelCaine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who plays preys on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious con artist, Freddy Benson (Creator/SteveMartin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may affect his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of 'The Jackal,' and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate. Complications and [[HilarityEnsues hilarities ensue]].
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* NoodleIncident: Just how did Freddy break the butler's VCR?
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* SpanishPrisoner: Lawrence's main scam.
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* SpanishPrisoner: Lawrence's main scam.scam is a variation on this.
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Lawrence Jamieson (MichaelCaine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who plays on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious con artist, Freddy Benson (SteveMartin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may affect his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of 'The Jackal,' and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate. Complications and [[HilarityEnsues hilarities ensue]].
Became a Broadway musical in 2005. According to IMDb, a remake is in development.
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Lawrence Jamieson (MichaelCaine) (Creator/MichaelCaine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who plays on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious con artist, Freddy Benson (SteveMartin), (Creator/SteveMartin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may affect his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of 'The Jackal,' and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate. Complications and [[HilarityEnsues hilarities ensue]].
Became a Broadway musical in 2005. According toIMDb, Website/IMDb, a remake is in development.
Became a Broadway musical in 2005. According to
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* Mary Sue: [[spoiler: Janet Colgate. Done well in this case, tropes are not bad.]]
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* AdaptationExpansion: TheMusical is extremely faithful to the movie, and one of the only changes that it makes are to give Andre and Mrs. Reed more character developement.
* AdaptationExpansion: TheMusical is extremely faithful to the movie, and one of the only changes that it makes are to give Andre and Mrs. Reed more character developement.
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->''Good guys finish last. Meet the winners.''
A 1988 FrankOz film about con artists. Taken, and undoubtably improved, almost word-for-word from an earlier movie, ''Bedtime Story''.
Lawrence Jamieson (MichaelCaine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who plays on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious con artist, Freddy Benson (SteveMartin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may affect his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of 'The Jackal,' and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate. Complications and [[HilarityEnsues hilarities ensue]].
Became a Broadway musical in 2005. According to IMDb, a remake is in development.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: TheMusical is extremely faithful to the movie, and one of the only changes that it makes are to give Andre and Mrs. Reed more character developement.
* BatmanGambit: Lawrence and Freddy use these extensively in their duel of bastardry, to see who can get $50,000 out of Janet first.
** MassiveMultiplayerScam: How Freddy and Lawrence both try to get the money from Janet.
** OutGambitted: [[spoiler: both Lawrence ''and'' Freddy]].
** WoundedGazelleGambit: Freddy's modus operandi.
*** [[spoiler: KansasCityShuffle: While Freddy and Lawrence are trying to con Janet, she plays along, taking them ''both'' for suckers at the climax.]]
** XanatosSpeedChess: Both con men are constantly revising their plans, both from the snags that they keep running into and the other's attempt to sabotage their plans.
* TheBarnum: Lawrence is this, or at least thinks he is. His introductory song in TheMusical is titled "Givin' Em What They Want."
* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. After demonstrating the skills that Lawrence taught him in the TrainingMontage, Freddy never uses them again.
* [[ConMan Con Men]] (Lawrence Jamieson, Freddy Benson[[spoiler:, and "Janet Colgate" herself!]])
* DirtyCop: Andre is pretty corrupt; he invades the privacy of visiting tourists, keeps a prostitute on retainer (Claudette, who keeps Freddy on the train), arrests foreigners without cause, and gets a healthy cut from Lawrence's work.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ostensibly, at least. Lawrence Jamieson claims to only target wealthy and corrupt women, and we never ''see'' him make his words hollow.
* GentlemanThief: Lawrence may rob these rich woman blind, but he spends it on rare art, ancient wine, and French legacy gardens.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] is the butler!
* [[spoiler: Mary Sue: Janet Colgate. Done well in this case, tropes are not bad.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: Played for laughs.
* PairTheSpares: Andre and Mrs. Reed in TheMusical.
* PrettyInMink: Janet has a mink that she claims Freddy stole from her, along with most of her possessions, at the end. [[spoiler:That was just part of her story to get Lawrence to give her some money.]]
* SpanishPrisoner: Lawrence's main scam.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Freddy pretends that Janet has cured his fake disability with ThePowerOfLove.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Lawrence's wine collection which he will never drink because "they're too valuable" and never sell because "they mean too much" too him.
* WelcomeToHell
** Even funnier when [[HeyItsThatGuy the line is delivered by]] [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine]]...
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->''Good guys finish last. Meet the winners.''
A 1988 FrankOz film about con artists. Taken, and undoubtably improved, almost word-for-word from an earlier movie, ''Bedtime Story''.
Lawrence Jamieson (MichaelCaine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who plays on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious con artist, Freddy Benson (SteveMartin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may affect his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of 'The Jackal,' and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate. Complications and [[HilarityEnsues hilarities ensue]].
Became a Broadway musical in 2005. According to IMDb, a remake is in development.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: TheMusical is extremely faithful to the movie, and one of the only changes that it makes are to give Andre and Mrs. Reed more character developement.
* BatmanGambit: Lawrence and Freddy use these extensively in their duel of bastardry, to see who can get $50,000 out of Janet first.
** MassiveMultiplayerScam: How Freddy and Lawrence both try to get the money from Janet.
** OutGambitted: [[spoiler: both Lawrence ''and'' Freddy]].
** WoundedGazelleGambit: Freddy's modus operandi.
*** [[spoiler: KansasCityShuffle: While Freddy and Lawrence are trying to con Janet, she plays along, taking them ''both'' for suckers at the climax.]]
** XanatosSpeedChess: Both con men are constantly revising their plans, both from the snags that they keep running into and the other's attempt to sabotage their plans.
* TheBarnum: Lawrence is this, or at least thinks he is. His introductory song in TheMusical is titled "Givin' Em What They Want."
* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. After demonstrating the skills that Lawrence taught him in the TrainingMontage, Freddy never uses them again.
* [[ConMan Con Men]] (Lawrence Jamieson, Freddy Benson[[spoiler:, and "Janet Colgate" herself!]])
* DirtyCop: Andre is pretty corrupt; he invades the privacy of visiting tourists, keeps a prostitute on retainer (Claudette, who keeps Freddy on the train), arrests foreigners without cause, and gets a healthy cut from Lawrence's work.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ostensibly, at least. Lawrence Jamieson claims to only target wealthy and corrupt women, and we never ''see'' him make his words hollow.
* GentlemanThief: Lawrence may rob these rich woman blind, but he spends it on rare art, ancient wine, and French legacy gardens.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] is the butler!
* [[spoiler: Mary Sue: Janet Colgate. Done well in this case, tropes are not bad.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: Played for laughs.
* PairTheSpares: Andre and Mrs. Reed in TheMusical.
* PrettyInMink: Janet has a mink that she claims Freddy stole from her, along with most of her possessions, at the end. [[spoiler:That was just part of her story to get Lawrence to give her some money.]]
* SpanishPrisoner: Lawrence's main scam.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Freddy pretends that Janet has cured his fake disability with ThePowerOfLove.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Lawrence's wine collection which he will never drink because "they're too valuable" and never sell because "they mean too much" too him.
* WelcomeToHell
** Even funnier when [[HeyItsThatGuy the line is delivered by]] [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine]]...
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