Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni

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 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.

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.

It seems like I've seen this movie at least a hundred times - when I was growing up Bluff was one of my favorite movies and I always watched it on TV whenever it was on. There's something about Adriano Celentano and Anthony Quinn's dynamic duo that makes Bluff such an immortal classic that I can watch over and over again, even in its native Italian language (which I watched just now for the first time).

The con movies are not the best at showing true emotions because its main characters are embedded with lies - they can do or tell anything just to play the game to the end, to succeed in a bluff - and this one is no exception. Celentano's Felix is young but talented enough to play big games all by himself whereas Quinn's Philip knows every trick in the book and is ready to put everything for the bluff of a lifetime, and they team up to pull it. Sure it sounds a lot like The sting that came out just 3 years prior to this one but it hasn't got either the class or charisma of the main characters (no disrespect to Paul Newman and Robert Redford but their duo is just ordinary and no match to these guys), or the astonishing music by Lelio Luttazzi that I got hooked on since the first seconds.

By the time I got internet and was in my twenties already I found out that I was watching an abridged version of the movie the whole time: for censorship reasons there were many scenes deleted that included nudity, profanity and questionable decisions made by Felix - which was not surprising why but it sort of robbed the character of his own growth. When we first meet him he's mean, green, egotistical and willing to stoop as low as one can get to take what he wants but by the end he realizes there's more to life than just a game. A bluff is a bluff but if the safety of your own and the people nearest you are at stake you'd do the impossible to keep it, even put mannequins on motorcycles and say "Andiamo!".

Bluff is the kind of story that you'd want to go back to as soon as you're beginning to miss those characters (which happens sooner than you think), it's funny, witty, has a ton of memorable moments and pieces of dialogue, incredible performances and unbelievably beautiful music score. Pa-ba-raaam..