The more I think about events in 'The Spanish Prisoner,' the less I like it so I'd better write this review while it's still at 2 stars. She wants that he were stopped by the police.He tries to travel on a boat, but his fake passport indicates that he is going to Venezuela (that's why the movie title is "The Spanish Prisoner").At the boat,Susan is revealed as an associate of Jimmy and all the plain was conducted by Mrs. Klein, Joe's boss.Jimmy appears and tries to kill Joe. And he needs money to get her and the fortune out. So far as it goes. "The Spanish Prisoner" resembles Alfred Hitchcock in the way that everything takes place in full view, on sunny beaches and in brightly lit rooms, with attractive people smilingly pulling the rug out from under the hero and revealing the abyss. It’s facilitating cross-border remittances. The Spanish Prisoner is named after a legendary long con, and here Campbell Scott, in full-on Jimmy Stewart “aw-shucks” mode—he is repeatedly referred to as a “boy scout”—plays the innocent man snared in a web of dark conspiracy. The con in "The Spanish Prisoner" is something entirely different. First the Spanish Prisoner con is designed to "steal" the formula. The classic Spanish prisoner con is indeed old but just shows that the gullibility of people has been around a long time and is still alive today. In its original form, the confidence trickster tells his victim (the mark) that he is (or is in correspondence with) a wealthy person of high estate who has been imprisoned in Spain under a … The Spanish Prisoner is a master class in the art of the long con. Sorry to keep working this film, but I managed to get engaged in a "fresh look." Ditto for Lindsay Crouse (Mamet's ex-wife). What’s the Big Idea? Here is her most beautiful portrait. The defining characteristic of the Spanish Prisoner con is that the mark believes he is doing well while doing good. He seems to have a fetish for crappy actresses. Scott’s Joe has created some mathematical equation referred to as the “process,” which is about to make the company he works for loads of money. Movie Review – Spanish Prisoner (1997) by fat vox David Mamet, who wrote such unusual hits as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross, and American Buffalo, wrote and also directed this unconventional offering entitled Spanish Prisoner, a phrase which refers to a con game. In fact, it's so watered down that it feels more like a forgettable T.V. In its original form, the con artist tells the victim that he is in touch with an aristocrat who has been imprisoned in Spain under a false identity. Oldest con in the world. Why it’s banking the unbanked. It seems like every week I receive an email that will give me millions of dollars from a prisoner in one country or another just contact his lawyer, who will ask me to send money or give him my bank account details, no doubt. Man who supplies the money gets the fortune and the girl. It’s bringing the benefits of crypto to the global masses. The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 American neo-noir suspense film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara, Felicity Huffman and Ricky Jay.The plot entails a story of corporate espionage conducted through an elaborate confidence game.. The mark believes that he is doing the right thing, that he’s the good guy in this story. It is a doozy, replete with corkscrew twists and double crosses (perhaps even triple or quadruple crosses, I lost count). SPANISH PRISONER, THE SYNOPSIS: Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) is a trusting man. The Spanish Prisoner, a scam dating back to 1588, is alive and well on the Internet. Naturally, any money the victim gave would inevitably disappear, and when possible the con man would even try and get his victim to contribute more cash by telling them that a daring rescue attempt needed to be funded. A popular con dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, the Spanish Prisoner is an advance-fee fraud in which the con artist convinces a mark that he is in correspondence with a wealthy aristocrat who is being held in a Spanish prison under a false identity. Rebecca Pidgeon (Mamet's wife and the afformentioned female lead in the The Spanish Prisoner) has been a lead balloon in everything I've ever seen her in, though. Here’s from an article titled “The Spanish Prisoner” (July 7th, 2019): Libra, the cryptocoin promoted by Facebook, is a Spanish Prisoner con. Mamet didn't quite develop his con game enough so, on a scale of 1-10, I'd give "The Spanish Prisoner…