The Flim-Flam Man (1967)


The Flim-Flam Man
Release Date22 August 1967
TaglineMeet Mordecai Jones; Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing-Dealing!
GenreComedy, Drama
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsIrvine, Kentucky, USA
LanguageEnglish
Sound Mix4-Track Stereo
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
ThemesCons and Scams
TagsAWOL (Absent Without Leave), Con Artist, Crime, Friendship, Going Straight, Prison, Prison Escape

The Flim-Flam Man is a 1967 American film directed by Irvin Kershner, starring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin and Sue Lyon, based on the novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The film boasts 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 also noted for its jovial musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. It was shot in the Lexington, Kentucky area.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Mordecai Jones

Bonnie Lee Packard

Sheriff Slade

Mr. Packard

Mrs. Packard

Deputy Meshaw

Jarvis Bates

Storekeeper Lovick

George Mitchell
Tetter

Supermarket manager

Jay Ose
2nd Fertilizer Man

Raymond Guth
1st Fertilizer man

Jesse Baker
Doodle Powell

Dale Van Sickel
Deputy-Guard

Director

Irvin Kershner
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Producer

Guy Owen
novel

William Rose
writer

Lawrence Turman
producer

Original Music

Cinematographer

Editor

Robert Swink
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Casting Director

Joe Scully
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Art Director

Lewis H. Creber

Jack Martin Smith
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Robert Emmet Smith

Set Decorator

Walter M. Scott
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John Sturtevant
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Costume Designer

Dorothy Jeakins
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Makeup Department

makeup artist

Production Manager

Joseph E. Rickards
unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

second unit director

William Kissell
assistant director

Art Department

Dennis J. Parrish
property master

Thomas Gark
assistant property master

Sound Department

Jim Bullock
supervising sound editor

David Dockendorf
sound

J.S. Westmoreland
sound

Special Effects

L.B. Abbott
special photographic effects

Art Cruickshank
special photographic effects

Emil Kosa Jr.
special photographic effects

Stunts

Coleman D. Brandenburg
stunt driver

Tom Dittman
stunts

Tom L. Dittman
stunts

Bill Hickman
stunts

Dale Van Sickel
stunts

Music Department

Arthur Morton
orchestrator

Production Company

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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Distributor

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Centfox Film

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)