The Sucker
1965
· Movie
· 111 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1184
- Rotten Tomatoes #905
- Letterboxd #1433
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1397
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #952
- Kinopoisk #614
Every rating
60–87
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 87. Critics average 87, everyone else 75.
See the most agreed on films →A naive man arrives in Paris and is immediately swindled out of his money by a con artist. Instead of being angry, he is impressed by the skill of the trick and asks to become the man's apprentice. He is slowly schooled in the arts of deception, eventually becoming a master swindler himself in the Parisian underworld.
Details
- Director
- Gérard Oury
- Writers
- Gérard Oury, Marcel Jullian
- Studio
- Les Films Corona, Explorer Film '58
- Released
- 24 March 1965
- Country
- Spain, France, Italy
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Budget
- $678.9K
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