Les plus belles escroqueries du monde
- Mie Hama: Geisha ( 1 episode )
- Ken Mitsuda: Composer ( 1 episode )
- Yatsuko Tan'ami: Detective ( 1 episode )
- Arnold Gelderman: Jeweller ( episode 2 )
- Nicole Karen: young woman ( episode 2 )
- January Teulings: Dutch ( episode 2 )
- Gabriella Giorgelli: ( Episode 3 )
- Guido Guiseppone: ( Episode 3 )
- Giuseppe Mannajuolo: ( Episode 3 )
- Jean -Pierre Cassel: Alain of Arcy ( Episode 4 )
- Catherine Deneuve: impostor ( Episode 4 )
- Francis Blanche: German ( Episode 4 )
- Jean Seberg: Patricia Leacock ( Episode 5 )
- László Szabó: Police Inspector ( Episode 5 )
The women are to blame for everything ( original: Les plus belles escroqueries du monde ) is an internationally -produced omnibus film from 1964 with episodes of Claude Chabrol et al and Roman Polanski.
Action
Five episodes portray the life of crooks and swindlers in five different cities:
Episode 1: Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko - Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
A young nightclub hostess, a so-called Geisha, meets in a bar in Tokyo an old man who used to work as a composer and wrote a famous song. The man brags to have spent a fortune on his new set of teeth made of platinum and walking around with bundles of bills in his pocket. The Geisha served him a large portion of pasta, which he finally suffocated, and stolen his platinum teeth to make it profitable exchange in a pawn shop for cash. There, however, it turns out that it is not to platinum. Memoirs of a Geisha is arrested and charged with murder.
2 Episode: La rivière de diamants - Directed by Roman Polanski
A young woman is seduced by a wealthy diplomat who has given her his business card and subsequently arranged to meet her in Amsterdam. In return for their nights together she chatters from him a valuable necklace, which she buys a parrot, without knowing how much the piece of jewelry is actually worth.
Episode 3: La feuille de route - Director: Ugo Gregoretti
A young prostitute may not be on the game longer and is chased out of town in Naples. However, it returns secretly to meet her pimp. But this also chases them away. Here, her path crosses with that of a young customer who offers her his help. First he wants to embezzle money donated to a charity and give her these. But ultimately it comes a different idea: If he married to a man from the local old people's home, she can legally stay in the city. Other light- girls do it their equal, all to the dismay of the pimp, as the older men no longer have their wedded wife work.
Episode 4: L' homme qui VendIT la Tour Eiffel - Director: Claude Chabrol
A man named Alain of Arcy 's car breaks down in front of the home of a wealthy Germans, from whom he learns that he is crazy about the Eiffel Tower. Alain So told him that France wants to auction off the Eiffel Tower and invites him to Paris. There succeeds Alain along with his accomplice, pretend the naive Germans, he bought the landmark of the city. The two crooks eventually make his escape. The German, however, will be arrested when he demands of tourists who want to visit the Eiffel Tower an entrance fee.
Episode 5: Le grand escroc - Director: Jean -Luc Godard
Patricia Leacock, an American journalist, is arrested on the market of Marrakech, because it is in possession of counterfeit money. After their interrogation, however, they are allowed to freely again and she comes to the counterfeiters on the track.
Background
The women are to blame for everything was premiered on August 14, 1964 in France. But even before the premiere producer Pierre Roustang ruled against the fifth episode of Le grand escroc by Jean -Luc Godard, which was eventually cut out. In Germany, the episodic film came with the remaining four episodes for the first time on July 9, 1964 in the cinemas.
Criticism
" Only Roman Polanski's contribution stands out from the staid routine and worn piquancy of these scenes. "