The Spanish Prisoner

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The Spanish Prisoner
Image:Spanish prisoner.jpg
Directed by	David Mamet
Produced by	Jean Doumanian
Written by	David Mamet
Starring	Campbell Scott Steve Martin Rebecca Pidgeon Ricky Jay Ben Gazzara
Distributed by	Sony Pictures
Release date(s)	September 8 1997
Running time	110 minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

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.

Plot

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 keeps that critical question alive until the last scene.

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