The Flim-Flam Man
The Flim-Flam Man is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, 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 film is set in the countryside and small towns of the American South, and it was shot in the Anderson County, Kentucky, area. It is also noted for its jovial, folksy musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.
Plot summary
Mordecai C. Jones (Scott) - a self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. — Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!" - is a drifting confidence trickster who makes his living defrauding people in the southern United States. One of his specialties is rigged punchboards.
He befriends a young man named Curley (Sarrazin), a deserter on the run from the United States Army, and the two team up to make money and keep out of reach of the law.