Basato su eventi reali, il film racconta la storia di due casalinghe, Connie Kaminski e la sua migliore amica JoJo Johnson. Le due riescono a trasformare il loro hobby di raccolta di coupon per avere sconti ai grandi magazzini in una truffa da milioni di dollari.
Marcos e Juan, due piccoli truffatori, si conoscono per caso quando il primo salva il secondo durante un maldestro tentativo di truffa in un negozio. Divengono soci in affari e quando vengono incaricati di vendere una serie contraffatta di francobolli rarissimi, noti come "Le nove regine", prezioso reperto della Germania 1920, Marcos e Juan capiscono che si tratta del loro colpo grosso. Ma non sono i soli...
Sopravvissuti alla carneficina della Grande Guerra, nel 1918 Albert e Edouard si ritrovano emarginati dalla società. Albert è un umile e insicuro impiegato che ha perso tutto, proprio alla fine del conflitto è stato salvato sul campo di battaglia da Edouard, un ragazzo ricco, sfacciato ed eccentrico, dalle notevoli doti artistiche. Dopo il congedo, entrambi condannati a una vita da esclusi, decidono di prendersi la loro rivincita inventandosi una colossale truffa ai danni del loro paese ed ergendo il sacrilegio allo status d'opera d'arte.
Un gruppo di amici scopre che la figurina venduta per pochi dollari vale in realtà milioni! Organizzano così un furto per riprendersela.
Joe Adams, un accanito giocatore d'azzardo, assume l'identità di un gangster morto per evitare la chiamata alle armi e pianifica di usare una raccolta di fondi per le vittime della guerra per finanziare una operazione illecita. Sarà l'amore a indurlo ad agire diversamente.
An unmitigated and sexy conman targets his next mark, the widowed Monique, for his latest swindle. But his routine scam hits a snag when suspicion mounts and his scheme quickly escalate into desperation, betrayal and murder.
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Joe Bascom va in Messico per riprendere a Harry Lambert i soldi che aveva rubato ai suoi amici. Si fa coinvolgere da questo in una truffa. Joe sta per essere arrestato perché il ricavato della truffa lo ha preso una donna e Joe non può ridarlo alla polizia. Harry e Joe finisce nell'arena col toro sul quale la donna ha buttato i soldi. Dopo tante peripezie li recupera e li dà alla polizia ed è così libero.
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a war veteran who finds a goldmine. He wants to earn enough money to take care of his young son, but crooked officials swindle him out of the mine, and then his son is killed. He swears vengeance and joins up with Mexican bandit, "Pancho Zapilla", who intends to destroy his whole town.
Agli inizi dell'Ottocento sir Paul Deverill, che intende sposare la figlia di un ricco vicino per rimpinguare le sue fortune in via di esaurimento, incontra Belle, una zingara, e se ne innamora follemente. Questa, credendolo ricco, lo induce a lasciare la fidanzata e a sposarla, ma quando si rende conto di come stanno veramente le cose, progetta di rifarsi sulla sorella di Paul, che è in attesa di una cospicua eredità.
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
In this magical movie, an overseas Filipino worker named Badong Bulaong (Robin Padilla) returns in the country after working in the Middle East. Upon his arrival, he was swindled of his belongings and was only left with a bottle he picked up in Saudi as a souvenir. To top it all, he discovered that his girlfriend has fallen in love with a basketball player. In his despair, he threw the bottle to the wall and from there came out a genie named Jeannie (Judy Ann Santos). And just like in fairy tales, he was entitled to three wishes.
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.