Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud
- Crime
- Documentary
Overview
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.
Keywords
- fraud
- film in film
- arab
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 24, 2016
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- english
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- BBC,Rise Films,Splice Post,BBC, Rise Films, Splice Post
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt5135736