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The Spanish Prisoner
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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.
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.