The Flim-Flam Man
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| Directed by | Irvin Kershner |
| Produced by | Lawrence Turman |
| Written by |
Guy Owen William Rose |
| Starring |
George C. Scott Sue Lyon Michael Sarrazin |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,845,000 |
| Box office | $1,200,000 (US/ Canada) |
The Flim-Flam Man is a 1967 American comedy movie directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin and Sue Lyon, based on the novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The movie has a cast of well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, Harry Morgan, and Albert Salmi.
The movie is set in the countryside and small towns of the American South, and it was filmed in the Anderson County, Kentucky, area. It is also noted for its folksy musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.
Mordecai C. Jones (Scott) – a self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. — Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!" – is a drifting confidence trickster who makes his living defrauding people in the southern United States. One of his specialties is rigged punchboards. He befriends a young man named Curley (Sarrazin), a deserter from the United States Army, and the two form a team to make money.
The movie was filmed on location for the most part in Central Kentucky during the second half of the year 1966. Exterior filming was done in a number of locations including near Frankfort, Midway, Winchester, Irvine, outside Georgetown, and several other places. Filming involving trains was done in conjunction with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and for a smaller part the Southern Railway System. Some interior filming (the inside of the Packard home, and campsite sequences) was done on a sound stage specially built in Lexington, Kentucky at the Vaughn Tobacco Company Warehouses.
On location filming locations included:
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