title: The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
text: The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers () is a 1964 crime comedy anthology film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors.
  
  Cast
   Mie Hama as a bar hostess (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
   Ken Mitsuda as a rich client (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")
   Nicole Karen as a French tourist (segment "La rivière de diamants")
   Jan Teulings as a Dutch man (segment "La rivière de diamants")
   Gabriella Giorgelli (segment "La Feuille de Route")
   Guido Guiseppone (segment "La Feuille de Route")
   Giuseppe Mannajuolo (segment "La Feuille de Route")
   Jean-Pierre Cassel as Alain des Arcys (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
   Francis Blanche as Mr. Umlaut (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
   Catherine Deneuve as a swindler (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel")
   Jean Seberg as Patricia (segment "Le Grand escroc")
   Charles Denner as a con man (segment "Le Grand escroc")
   Laszlo Szabo as a police inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
  
  Release
  The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers was released in France in August 1964, in Italy in 1964, in Japan on 4 October 1964 and in the Netherlands on 12 November 1965. In the United States, the film was released on 12 September 1967 by Ellis Films and Continental Distributing.
  
  The film was unavailable for many decades, until it was restored and released on home video in France on 23 September 2016 and in the United States on 25 April 2017.
  
  Roman Polanski's segment of the film, "La rivière de diamants" ("A River of Diamonds"), has been removed, at his direct request, and that portion is thus still unavailable.
  
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  1964 films
  1964 comedy films
  1964 crime films
  1960s crime comedy films
  1960s Dutch-language films
  1960s French films
  1960s French-language films
  1960s Italian films
  1960s Italian-language films
  1960s Japanese films
  1960s Japanese-language films
  Dutch crime comedy films
  Dutch multilingual films
  Films directed by Claude Chabrol
  Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  Films directed by Roman Polanski
  Films directed by Ugo Gregoretti
  Films scored by Krzysztof Komeda
  Films scored by Piero Umiliani
  Films scored by Serge Gainsbourg
  Films set in Amsterdam
  Films set in Morocco
  Films set in Naples
  Films set in Paris
  Films set in Tokyo
  Films shot in Amsterdam
  Films shot in Morocco
  Films shot in Naples
  Films shot in Paris
  Films shot in Tokyo
  Films with screenplays by Paul Gégauff
  Films with screenplays by Roman Polanski
  French anthology films
  French black-and-white films
  French crime comedy films
  French multilingual films
  French-language Italian films
  Italian anthology films
  Italian crime comedy films
  Italian multilingual films
  Italian-language French films
  Japanese anthology films
  Japanese crime comedy films
  Japanese multilingual films