Everything about The Flim-flam Man totally explained
The Flim-Flam Man is a 1967 USA
film starring
George C. Scott,
Michael Sarrazin and
Sue Lyon, based on the novel
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The film boasts a cast of well-known character actors in supporting roles, including
Jack Albertson,
Slim Pickens,
Strother Martin,
Harry Morgan and
Albert Salmi. The movie is also noted for its jovial musical score by composer
Jerry Goldsmith. It was shot in the
Lexington, Kentucky area.
The derivation of the term
flim-flam man is debated, but may come from the 1930s law firm of Flam & Flam, lawyers of less-than-sterling repute in the immigrant neighborhood of 165 East 121st St. in
New York City.
Plot summary
Scott plays Mordecai C. Jones, a drifting
con artist who makes his living playing tricks on people in the
South. One of his specialties is rigged
punchboards. He befriends a young man named Curley (
Michael Sarrazin), an
AWOL veteran on the run from the
United States Army, and the two become a team to make money.
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