Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (VHS)

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (VHS)

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.

• Rated: PG
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Format: Color
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English

“… They’re mean, they’re nasty, they’re no good, and they’re awfully funny… I loved every minute of it.”

A connoisseur of conning, Lawrence Jamison (Michael Caine) is running the ultimate royal scam on the Riviera: He’s posing as a deposed prince raising funds for the freedom fighters of his stricken homeland. Should a wealthy commoner care to “give her all” to his noble cause, so be it – provided she also kicks in cash, jewelry and gambling chips. But his “hustling highness” gets royally flushed when one day a pretender to his throne turns up. He’s Freddy Benson (Steve Martin), a small-time scam artist who has enough on Jamison to make a mess of the monarchy. So the rivals make a wager: the first to extract $50,000 from the next woman they see, wins. And the loser goes into exile. Enter Janet Colgate (Glenne Headly), a naïve, American “detergent heiress”. And the race is on. With Jamison ready to take her and Freddy eager to make her, the innocent “soap queen” is ell on her way to the cleaners in this hilarious comedy that proves that anybody can be taken in by “DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS.”

1988 Orion Home Video