Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud

Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud (2016)


  • Genre: Crime, Documentary
  • Release Date: 2016-01-24
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
  • Director: Ben Lewis
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Summary

Documentary about a bankrupt Jordanian entrepreneur and an unemployed Irish actress who hatch a plan to scam £2.5m off the British taxman by faking the production of a £20m movie. But they are found out, arrested and then bailed. While out on bail, they decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made micro-budget gangster film director. In 2011, Paul Knight makes their movie for under £100,000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars including Danny Midwinter, Marc Bannerman and Loose Women's Andrea McLean. The film's title is A Landscape of Lies. But the cinematic alibi does not convince the jury when the trial runs in 2013. The producers are convicted of tax fraud and given long sentences.

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  • Tony Carling

    as Narrator
  • Paul Knight

    as
  • Jonathan Sothcott

    as
  • Freddie Foreman

    as
  • Danny Young

    as
  • Mel Mills

    as
Directing Ben Lewis Director
Camera Tom Swindell Director of Photography
Editing Simon Barker Editor
Sound Merlin Bonning Sound

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