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The Con Artists is a light Italian comedy featuring Adriano Celentano. A well-transmitted era of the 30s to France. Easy comedy to watch for once. Unexpected to see Anthony Quinn in Italian cinema.

I'll get the obvious out of the way: this is an Italian movie in which everyone but Anthony Quinn and Capucine are dubbed by really ridiculous English voices. If you don't like Spaghetti Westerns, you're not going to make it through this one.

The Con Artists, one of many release titles, is 1970s Italian slapstick, so again, if you're not in the mood for that, you'll probably turn it off. I only stuck with it for love of Anthony Quinn, who looked very handsome in his silver-haired splendor. Tony and Italian actor Adriano Celentano are jailbirds who escape due to a series of bizarre con jobs on the prison guards. They team up for the larger goal of getting revenge on Tony's ex-wife, Capucine, but for the vast majority of the movie, they're just pulling pranks and con jobs on random people. For example, Tony wants a new suit, so after he's tried one on, Adriano tells the shop owner that Tony has leprosy. The shop owner tells Tony to leave the story immediately, and he gets to keep the suit without paying for it.

This is a pretty silly movie, one that only kids might like, if it weren't for the terrible dubbing that would make them tune out. Unless you're in love with the cast, you can skip this one. Try The Secret of Santa Vittoria instead.

One of the earliest memory of Celentano is associated with this movie scenes, it had left me with so much impression that some scenes become core memory of certain year and age of mine. Movie is just perfectly balanced, all actors fit their role so perfectly each actor represented the energy of their protoganist. Celentano no doubt is timeless classical king of Italian comedy, his facial expressions and behaviour can not be replaced by any, as this features is originally only fit dor Celentano. The Con Artists, screenplay biggest triumph is its domino effect following events, you can follow up from early on and it gets only interesting, whole movie is like a journey, no break event after event follows and thats what makes this movie out of boring category. Perfect movie I give it 10/10!

The film starts off well, and both Quinn and Celentano are likable, but the plot becomes rather silly without being genuinely funny. The tricks and cons are not the least bit believable, and all the other characters are poorly developed, as are their relationships with the main characters. The overall production quality is quite good, and the actors perform well - it's the plot that feels cheap. There are some charming moments, but nothing truly funny, and all the twists and turns are as implausible as possible.

I would recommend this film only for children - it should have been a cartoon anyway.

High Rollers is in my opinion one of the greatest movies ever, probably the best comedy. It is absolutely fantastic.