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The Spanish Prisoner is a american film of genre Drama directed by David Mamet released in USA on 15 may 1998 with Campbell Scott
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
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Add to a movie listThe Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 American suspense film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara, Felicity Huffman and Ricky Jay. The film tells the story of an elaborate confidence game; the Spanish Prisoner scam is mentioned, though the actual plot has little if any resemblance to it.
In 1999 the film was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay but lost out to Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight.
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Corporate engineer Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) has invented a very lucrative, very secret industrial process. While on a corporate retreat at the resort island of St. Estèphe, he meets a wealthy stranger, Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), and attracts the interest of one of the company's new secretaries, Susan Ricci (Rebecca Pidgeon).Actors
Campbell Scott
(Joe Ross)
Steve Martin
(Jimmy Dell)
Rebecca Pidgeon
(Susan Ricci)
Ricky Jay
(George Lang)
Ben Gazzara
(Mr. Klein)
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