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- This article is about a movie named for the confidence game. For the con itself, see Spanish Prisoner.
The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 feature film, written and directed by David Mamet. It stars Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, and Rebecca Pidgeon and tells the story of an elaborate confidence game.
Campbell Scott plays a research engineer who has invented The Process, a not-yet patented and very secret industrial process, said to be of great financial value. While on a corporate retreat at an island resort, Campbell meets a number of strangers (Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon) who plant in the inventor's mind a seed of distrust for his employer. The inventor begins to fear that credit for his invention will shortly be taken from him, and he has to decide, "Who can I trust?" Mamet skillfully keeps that critical question alive until the last scene.
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1997 films | Neo-noir | Films directed by David Mamet | Heist films
Die unsichtbare Falle | La Prisonnière espagnole | La formula (film 1997)
"The Spanish Prisoner"